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Short: Patches OS, ARP & REQ for ReqTools.
Type: util/misc
author cmh@augs.se
uploader mbars@bluejay.creighton.edu
Long:
One of the many new features with Amiga OS 2.0, is a new library called Asl,
which contains a standard file and a font requester (in OS 2.1 or higher there
is also a screenmode requester). Before OS 2.0, there were no standard
requesters of this kind, which lead several programmers to write their own
version(s) of a file/font requester. Some programmers put them in a library -
often with other requesters and/or functions - so that other programs could
use them as well. Of these external requesters (or rahter, libraries), there
were basically two that became really popular, Arp and Req.
Arp was the first one, and that library also contains a number of useful
function that the Amiga OS didn't have before version 2.0. Req on the other
hand have a couple of extra requesters and requester-related functions, and
the combined file and font requester is rather powerful (although maybe not
the most beautiful one).
Anyway, the thought is that all programs should use the new standard Asl
requesters, to provide a nice looking and uniform environment for the user.
However, I think these new requesters have a couple of drawbacks. For one
thing, the file requester is slow (although this is improved in OS 2.1), and
doesn't look that good (IMHO). The information requester (which also is
improved in OS 2.0) is glued to the upper left corner of the screen, and can
only be confirmed with the mouse, or some cryptic key-combination (although
there is a thought behind that).
Another problem is that there are a lot of older programs that still use Arp
and Req. These requesters simply doesn't fit that well into the new OS 2.0
environment. Something had to be done about this. But what?
One day I got a copy of ReqTools, a library written by Nico François. This
library contains a set of requesters that looks good, and are generally faster
and better than the other possible alternatives (again, IMHO). When I saw
these requesters, I thought:
"Why can't all programs use these requesters instead?"
So, I decided to do the best I could so that as many programs as possible
would use the ReqTools requesters instead, regardless if they previously had
used Asl, Arp or Req.
The result of this effort is this program, ReqChange, which replaces most
requesters in Intuition, Asl, Arp and Req with the equivalents found in
ReqTools. It also offers a couple of extra features.
Note: ReqChange only replaces the requester functions in a library, not the
entire library. You still need the library in question.
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