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- Documentation for the modul Menu2Asm 04-Jun-91 Jürgen Zimmermann
- Author: Jürgen Zimmermann, Ringstr. 6, W-6719 Altleiningen, Germany
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-
- Copyright
- ===========
- The whole package (source, documentation and objectcode) is
- freeware. It is allowed to copy and spread it as long as...
-
- * my name and the copyright-note are left in,
- * the completeness of the package is guaranteed,
- * no profit is made by copying, selling or using my programs.
-
- Suggestions are always welcome. If you do any modifications with the
- program, please document them. If there are many or great changes of
- the source by you, you should send me a note about them. If you find
- any bugs in the program, please send me a detailed bug-report, I'll
- work on it.
-
- The package "Menu2Asm"
- =====================
- The whole package "Menu2Asm" contains:
-
- * Menu2Asm.doc This documentation
- * Menu2Asm.dok The german documentation
- * Menu2Asm.mod The source of the modul
- * Menu2Asm.def The source of the definition
- * -.obj + -.sym The object- symbol-files of the modul
-
-
- To "Menu2Asm"
- =============
- With the modul "Menu2Asm" it is possible to use initialized
- menus with the new version of the Modula-2-Compiler M2Amiga V4.0.
- The menus are linked together with the program, no additional
- source-code is neccessary to built up the structures at run-time.
-
- The way to use "Menu2Asm" is as easy as possible: after you have built up
- YOUR menu an installed it with the procedure IntuitionL.SetMenuStrip to
- a window, call the procedure Menu2Asm.MakeMenu2Asm(pointer to your
- window). At this time a window opens on the Workbench Screen (if you
- started your program from the workbench) or a message in the CLI/SHELL
- appears. Now you must type in the whole name and path you want the produced
- source to be written to. Any extension (e.g. ".hallo") of the filename is
- ignored!
- The procedure then writes a definition- and an implementation-modul.
- Also a file named "programname"+"Asm.asm" is produced, which contains
- the A68k-compatible source for the menu-structure. All you have to do now is
- to assemble the assembler-source with an assembler and to compile the
- definition- and implementation-modul with M2Amiga. The assembled file
- MUST have the extension ".obj" and MUST be put in the "obj/"-directory of
- the project - if you have one. The objectfile MUST also have the same name
- as the source, because the linker looks for it with that name!
-
- To use the menu in your own program, you just import the pointer to the
- menu (called "MenuStrip") and install the menu using the function
- "IntuitionL.SetMenuStrip". There now is no need for the time- and
- space-wasting initialization of the menu during program-start,
- it is already there!
-
-
- And now a hint to all professional programmers:
- The two by "Menu2Asm" produced Modula-2-modules are only for the quick and
- easy use of pre-initialized menus. If you copy the "VAR"-line of the
- definition-module in your own source, you no longer have the need for
- the the definition- and the implementation-module. You also have a gain
- of about 80 bytes space!
-
-
-
- Bye,
-
-
- Yours
-
-
- Jürgen
-