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- Short: ReqTools 2.3 - the requester toolkit
- Type: util/libs
- Author: nico@augfl.be (Nico Francois)
- Uploader: cmh@lls.se (Magnus Holmgren)
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- NOTE: This is the user archive, there are no includes, autodocs, glue
- code, example files included.
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-
- reqtools.library is a standard Amiga shared, runtime library. The purpose
- of ReqTools is to make it a lot quicker and easier to build standard
- requesters into your programs. ReqTools is designed with Commodore's style
- guidelines in mind, all requesters have the look-and-feel of AmigaDOS
- Release 2.
-
- ReqTools features the following requesters: a query requester, a string
- requester, a number requester, a file requester, a font requester, a
- palette requester, a volume requester and a screenmode requester.
-
- Also included are RTPatch (1.3) and RexxReqTools (1.3):
-
- RTPatch is a small program that will re-route functions from most popular
- requester libraries to ReqTools. Libraries currently supported are Arp, Req
- and Asl. RTPatch will also patch some functions in Intuition to give you
- improved system requesters.
-
- RexxReqTools gives ARexx users easy access to a large family of requesters.
- All requesters are easy to use; they require one or no arguments. But the
- requesters also have a lot of power through several optional arguments and
- through tagstrings. RexxReqTools itself doesn't implement any of these
- requesters, it is a link between ARexx and ReqTools.
-
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- RELEASE 2.3 (Library version 38.1292)
-
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- NOTE: Update work made by Magnus Holmgren. Due to the change of
- programmer, please be aware of that there might be some
- initial problems, such as missing files and similar.
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-
- Release 1.3 of RexxReqTools included.
- Recompiled using DICE 3.01. This was forced by the fact that I don't
- have SAS/C (yet, at lest). As a result, the library now is a couple
- of KBs larger.
- Bug fix: screenmode requester now works better when showing a depth
- gadget for HAM screens. Most notably, the requester will not crash
- under certain circumstances, and will also handle HAM modes with a
- depth of 8 (earlier, only depth 6 was supported). The HAM support was
- a kind of hack, which was incomplete. Its still a hack, but it is
- better now. ;)
- In the file requester, when displaying the volumes list, RMB acts like
- pressing the Get gadget. I.e., you can go back to the original list
- by a simple RMB click. The "Volumes" gadget also acts like Get, if
- pressed while the volume list is displayed.
- The resizable requesters now uses "OS 3 zooming". I.e., the requester
- doesn't move (unless needed) when zoomed.
- Added zoom gadget for the palette requester. When zoomed, the
- requester resizes to "titlebar" size; again, using OS 3 zooming if
- possible.
- Updated the Swedish translation a little.
- In rtEZRequest, function keys can now be used to select the first ten
- gadgets, if enabled in the prefs editor.
- Added the 'Use function keys' option to the prefs program. Currently
- this is the only way to enable this function. In the future there
- will probably be a new tag/flag for this as well.
- Increased the stack some requester functions allocates, if needed.
- Should solve the crashing requesters with some programs when e.g.
- CyberGraphX is installed.
- Added missing tags to ReqTools.h (RTGL_CenterText and RTGS_CenterText).
- Fixed the prefs editor so that all gadgets are updated when new
- settings are loaded.
- Rewrote the DICE-C glue. Now includes autoopen code.
- New distribution layout. There are still two different archives, but
- the contents are different little:
- reqtools<ver>.lha is replaced with reqtools<ver>dev.lha, and contains
- only the developer files (glue, examples, includes and autodocs). The
- user archive (reqtools<ver>usr.lha) haven't changed.
- The filerequester (and the font- and screenmode requester as well) will
- now look better when the screen they open on have "strange" dri-pens.
- Support for OS 1.3 completely dropped. The 1.3 version of
- reqtools.library is no longer included.
- Made a minor change in the ASL patch in RTPatch, so that it returns
- errors more correctly (avoids annoying error requesters after having
- cancelled certain file requesters). I hope the reassemble didn't
- break anything. I haven't tested it much. ;)
-
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- ReqTools 2.3 - reqtools.library
- Copyright (c) 1991-1994 Nico François
- 1995 Magnus Holmgren
-