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- Readme for TextField Gadget
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- June 27, 1994
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- I should tell you where some things are. First, the docs for the
- gadget are in the Docs drawer. There is both an autodoc file and
- an amigaguide file (converted with a cool adtoht tool). The source
- to the TestTextField program is in the Source drawer, along with all
- the files necessary to compile it with SAS/C 6.50 or greater. The
- Gadgets drawer contains the actual "textfield.gadget" file. And,
- the Include drawer can be copied to include: to put all the
- necessary header files in their places (gadgets/textfield.h,
- proto/textfield.h, and pragmas/textfield_pragmas.h).
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- The TextFieldAuto.c file mentioned in the autodocs is found in the
- Source drawer. And the license contains fairly relevant information
- on how I want this archive and the gadget distributed.
-
- And last, I need to explain that this gadget was mentioned a long
- time ago on Usenet, but the wait to releae it was mainly in waiting
- for CATS getting back to me with a public class name. Well they
- never did, so after some discussion on Usenet, Christoph Feck made
- the ingenious GetClass() suggestion for obtaining a pointer to
- the class. Although it's not as simple as just using a public name,
- it does have the advantage of being a bit faster in the case that
- you might create instances fairly often. And at the same time, I
- wrote the autoinit/term functions to make the library open/closing
- hidden which makes everything about the same anyway.
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- The History file contains info on bug fixes and new features.
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- Please remember to send me any comments or bug reports.
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- Mark Thomas
- mthomas@cs.utexas.edu
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