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- /* File: broker.h
- * Created: 20-10-95
- * Updated: 30-10-95
- * Version: 1.0
- * Project: Clicker
- * Owner: Jeroen Vermeulen
- * Requirements: KickStart V39+
- * Legal: PD
- * Status: Release
- */
-
-
- /* MakeBroker():
- * Creates and initializes a NewBroker structure, including its MsgPort.
- * Call KillBroker() to get rid of it later. If allocation fails for
- * some reason, NULL is returned and the pointer indicated by errptr is
- * redirected to an error string.
- */
- struct NewBroker *MakeBroker(STRPTR *const errptr, const BYTE cx_pri);
-
-
- /* SetupBroker():
- * Sets up the commodities broker network for Clicker (created with
- * MakeBroker()) in an inactive state. Activate or deactivate it with
- * ActivateCxObj().
- * If successful, a pointer to the root CxObj is returned, so it can later be
- * deallocated with DeleteCxObjAll(). If an error occurs, NULL is returned and
- * the STRPTR pointed to by errptr will point to an error message.
- */
- CxObj *SetupBroker(STRPTR *const errptr, struct NewBroker *const mybroker);
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-
- /* KillBroker():
- * Delete a NewBroker structure (and its MsgPort) that was allocated
- * through MakeBroker(). Calling this for an unitialized or NULL broker
- * is safe, as long as initialization was done by MakeBroker().
- */
- void KillBroker(struct NewBroker *const brokerobj);
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