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- GadUtil.library v36.52
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- GadUtil is another gui library which main goal was to make it easy to
- create font sensitive user interfaces. The library has grown away from
- this main goal, and become another useful-routine-library.
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- Distribution:
-
- 1) Distribution of this library is allowed in two ways:
- ¹) Only the .library file
- ²) The complete distribution
-
- 2) Programmers of totally free software can use and distribute this
- library for free.
-
- 3) Programmers of Shareware, Licensware, commercial products and other
- programs that the programmer get any kind of profit from shall send
- a fully working (and registered) copy of the program and its docs to
- us. All larger updates of the program should also be sent to us.
-
- 4) Programmers of non-free software not covered by 1) and 2) (my Diskware
- concept belongs to this group) shall be treated as in 3) (a fully
- working and registered copy...).
-
- 5) All programs (except commercial products in some cases) must state
- that gadutil.library is used. This may be done in either the About
- requester or in the documentation, but best of all in both places.
-
- Demonstration programs for gadutil.library (that includes the full
- source) may be distributed without this note.
-
- Example for inclusion in About requester:
-
- "This program uses gadutil.library, which
- is Copyright © 1994-1995 by P-O Yliniemi
- and Staffan Hämälä."
-
- 6) All localized programs that uses this library should include the
- .ct file(s) to allow anyone to translate that program into their
- own language.
-
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- Below is a list of some of the main functions covered by this library.
-
- * FAST (NO OR VERY SMALL DIFFERENCE AGAINST GADTOOLS) AND SMALL (LESS THAN 10k).
- WRITTEN IN ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE. NO F*CKING 'C' or any other slow language!
-
- * Font adaptive. Use any of the system fonts and most other fonts for
- gadgets, texts and menus. All gadgets are placed relative to each
- other, but can be placed at absolute positions (needed for the first
- gadget).
-
- * No need to use GIMMEZEROZERO windows, as this is automatically handled
- by the library. If you specify a gadget position of 10,10 the gadget
- will be placed at 10,10 within the window's border.
-
- * Localized. It is really easy to localize all your (new) programs by
- using this library. Functions and macros for creating localized menus
- are supplied.
-
- * Both assembly and 'C' language support. This is one of the things that is
- missing in most of the other gui libraries. Some extra macros are defined
- for assembly language users, and will make the gadget and menu creating
- process even more easy.
-
- * All GadTools gadgets are supported. Some extra functions are provided
- for ListViews. BUTTON_KIND (and IMAGE_KIND) gadgets have some extra tags,
- including a toggle-select option.
-
- 4 extended gadget types are handled by the library:
-
- · FILE_KIND - gadget for selecting a file.
-
- · DRAWER_KIND - gadget for selecting a drawer. Most programs also
- use this gadget for file selection.
-
- · IMAGE_KIND - uses an intuition image for the gadget. Can use
- different images for selected and non-selected state.
-
- · BEVELBOX_KIND - gadtools bevelboxes, with some extensions. All
- gadtools bevelboxes are supported (even with v37).
- Extensions allows text to be placed above, in or below
- the upper line of the box. All kinds can be inverted.
-
- New for v36.52: Bevelbox text placement extended.
- 3 new placements available together with the old
- ones: centered, left adjusted & right adjusted.
-
- BFT_BUTTON - GT v37 BUTTON_KIND border
- BFT_RIDGE - GT v37 STRING_KIND border
- BFT_DROPBOX - GT v39 BBFT_ICONDROPBOX border
- BFT_HORIZBAR - A horizontal shadowed line
- BFT_VERTBAR - A vertical shadowed line
-
- This makes it a total of 100 bevel box types. The bevel
- boxes are treated as gadgets by the library, and you
- can obtain the structure for the bevelbox in the same
- way as you get the gadget pointer.
-
- * A new OpenFont (graphics.library and diskfont.library replacement) is supplied.
- This function will open any font (from RAM, ROM or load it from disk).
-
- * Functions for listviews include adding nodes (memory for the string is
- allocated by the function), counting nodes, getting node pointers, clearing
- a listview, attach and detach lists, moving nodes up and down.
-
- * No need to open gadtools.library anymore, since all gadtools functions are
- provided through this library. Some (the most useable) functions from locale
- library are also provided by gadutil.
-
- * Many libraries are opened through gadutil.library, and these library bases
- are available for your own use (you don't have to open or close some libs).
-
- * All gadgets are created using tag lists. Every next gadget will use the
- previous gadgets values as defaults. Only one call to the gadget making
- routine is needed for every gadget list.
-
- * All gadgets can have their own hotkey. No extra work is needed by the
- programmer (only one extra tag).
-
- * Distributed with lots of examples, mostly in assembly language, but also
- in 'C'.
-
- * Other functions include:
-
- · Status change for toggle select buttons.
-
- · String change for STRING and TEXT_KIND gadgets.
-
- · Disable functions for gadgets that support the GA_Disabled tag.
-
- · Routines to set up a busy-pointer (available for both v37 and v39). These
- routines also blocks the input to the main window of the program.
-
- · Routine to check if the mouse pointer is within a gadgets box. Useful
- for mouse-position sensitive appwindows.
-
- · Bevelbox and window refreshing functions.
-
- * FAST (NO OR VERY SMALL DIFFERENCE AGAINST GADTOOLS) AND SMALL (LESS THAN 10k).
- WRITTEN IN ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE. NO F*CKING 'C' or any other slow language!
-
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- Per-Olof Yliniemi Staffan Hämälä
- Muoniovaara Pellovägen 268
- S-980 64 Muodoslompolo S-957 93 Pello
- SWEDEN SWEDEN
-
- email: email:
- P-O_Yliniemi@spectre.talshiar.pp.se < no address for now >
-
- Don't send programs through e-mail, since I have no way to regulary check
- my mail!
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