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- Official release of version 1.22, Jan '90
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- Req.library is Copyright ©1989, 1990 by C.W. Fox and Bruce Dawson. It is
- freely distributable. No charge may be made for it's distribution, except
- for a nominal media fee.
-
- Feel free to distribute and use this library with your programs, along
- with a notice that the library is 'FreeWare'.
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-
- Hello! This is the introduction to the all-new "req.library"!
-
- What is it?
-
- Req.library adds user-friendliness to the Amiga's user interface.
- While all that intuition offers the programmer is a boring, inflexible,
- slow, painful requester, req.library allows fast & user-friendly
- requesters. Notice I said 'requesters', as they include a text requester
- (who's size is automatically figured from the body of text within), a
- colour requester (intelligent enough to correctly size it's palette
- according to the depth of the screen), string and int requesters, and a
- file requester!!! Not to mention numerous gadget creation routines, and a
- real-time scroll routine.
-
- The nice thing about the gadget creation routines, is that they create
- fully re-entrant gadgets, so if you wish to run a routine over and over
- (for, say, a multi-window program), you may feel free. All you do is pass
- a buffer (the sizes required are defined in reqbase.i and reqbase.h) and
- they will fill it in.
-
- (Please see req.doc for a more comprehensive explanation).
-
- Here is an overview of the files included in this ZOO archive:
-
- reqreadme This file.
- areqglue.o Gluecode for aztec C. Link with your C code.
- lreqglue.o Gluecode for Lattice C. Link with your C code.
- reqglue.asm Sourcecode for the gluecode.
- customizefile.asm How to customize the file requester.
- customizefile The executable of the file requester customizer.
- reqbase.h The C include file. Put it in include/libraries
- reqbase.i The asm include file. Put it in include/libraries
- showoffreq.c The C source code for the req demo program.
- showoffreq The req demo executable.
- req.library The actual library. This goes in libs:
- reqproto.h The prototype file for Lattice C
- req.doc The instructions and calling conventions.
- macros.i Some handy macros.
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- Included is a demo program called Showoffreq, which opens a screen
- with text gadgets in it, one per requester, and lets you try out many of
- the requesters. You can look at the source code for examples of how to
- call the different requesters. If you wish to experiment with the
- requesters, this might be a good place to start.
-
-
- To compile showoffreq.c under Lattice, use:
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- lc -Lcd+lib:lreqglue.o showoffreq
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- To compile showoffreq.c under Aztec, use:
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- cc showoffreq -oo/showoffreq.o
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- ln -w +Q -o showoffreq o/showoffreq.o lib:areqglue.o -lc
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- For Assembly
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- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- To use req.library from assembly language is quite easy. So far,
- nothing's been said about it, so here is some info.
-
- First of all, the library is EXACTLY like system libraries; you open
- it, call functions, and then close it. We've included some macros that may
- make working with it a bit easier. All you have to include to actually use
- the req.library is reqbase.i. This contains all the function offsets. You
- may wish to call the functions directly, or use a bit of gluecode to make
- things even easier. If you wish to do it all yourself, then all you've got
- to do is include reqbase.i. If you wish to use some pre-made function
- setup, then you have to link with the appropriate reqglue.o (lreqglue.o for
- Lattice, and areqglue.o for Aztec).
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- To link with lreqglue.o (for Lattice), an example linkfile might look like
- this:
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- ---cut here---cut here---cut here---cut here---cut here---cut here---cut here
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- FROM
- lib:startup.o
- obj/file1.o
- obj/file2.o
- obj/data.o
- obj/menus.o
- lib:lreqglue.o
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- LIB
- lib:amiga.lib
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- TO
- file
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- nodebug smallcode smalldata
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- BATCH
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- and to use this linkfile, just say:
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- blink with <linkfile>
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-
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- To link with areqglue.o (for Aztec), an example linkfile might look like this:
-
-
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- ---cut here---cut here---cut here---cut here---cut here---cut here---cut here
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- ln -w +Q -o file1 o/file1.o lib:areqglue.o -lc
-
- ---cut here---cut here---cut here---cut here---cut here---cut here---cut here
-
- and to use this linkfile, just say:
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- ln -f <linkfile>
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