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- 06 Nov 1994
-
- AmigaOberon System Interfaces 40.15 Oberon 3.5
- ==============================================
-
- © Copyright 1992-1994 by Fridtjof Siebert und hartmut Goebel
-
-
- This archive holds the AmigaOberon Interfaces for AmigaOS 3.1 (V40),
- based on includes V40.15, Oberon Version 3.5.
-
- NOTE: The numbering scheme has been changed to reflect the original
- include version and the Oberon version has been added. So
- Interfaces 40.15 Oberon 3.x are successors of the previously
- released Interfaces 40.17.
-
-
- Copyright
- =========
-
- This interfaces are
-
- © Copyright 1992-1994 by Fridtjof Siebert und hartmut Goebel
-
- The complete and unchanged archive may be freely distributed for
- use with AmigaOberon only. Please consult the AmigaOberon manual
- for detailed licence.
-
- Warranty
- ========
-
- I've done my best to remove all recently knows bugs (but please check
- with the bugs file, if supplied) and convert the includes as good as
- possible. But remember:
-
- * No Warranty
-
- THE MODULES AND PROGRAMS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY
- OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
- LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE
- RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE OF ANY MODULE IS ASSUMED BY YOU.
-
- When you find any bugs, please mail them to:
-
- interface-bugs@oberon.nbg.sub.org
-
- Your report will then be added to the bugs database automatically and
- you'll get a reciept notification. PLEASE use this service to make
- sure every report reaches me! I may miss reports posted to news
- groups (I read only very few of them).
-
-
- Installation
- ============
-
- ATTENTION: Please use 'recomp3_10.lst' for AmigaOberon V3.10/3.11
- (and probably higher) since there have been some changes
- in the module compilation order.
-
- I heard some guys had had problems since the module
- Objects.mod couldn't be found, even it is on my original
- v3.11 disks. If you don't have this module, just delete
- the one line in recomp3_10.lst.
-
- NOTE: Due to changes in the Interfaces you may have to do some
- changes in standard modules which come with AO 3.0+. See 'List
- of Changes to do' below.
-
- For re-compiling all modules proceed as follows or use the brand new
- Installer script
-
- ;
- ; activate you Oberon environment
- ;
- assign om: Oberon:Module ;or wherever they are
- assign oa: Oberon:Interfaces ; - " -
- cd Oberon: ;or wherever you module's sym/ and obj/ dirs are
- lha x Interface38,108 *.mod oa:/
- residentmanager reset
- delete sym/#? all quiet force ; old sym are obsolete
- Oberon <recomp.lst ; or recomp3_10.lst'
- Oberon -a <recomp.lst ; or recomp3_10.lst'
- Oberon -md <recomp.lst ; or recomp3_10.lst'
- Oberon -mad <recomp.lst ; or recomp3_10.lst'
-
- The script is not able to recompile the LibOberonLib modules. If you
- need them, please proceed as follows:
-
- cd Oberon:LibLink
- oberon -md SET LibLink om:OberonLib
- oberon -mad SET LibLink om:OberonLib
- rename obj/OberonLib.objs obj/LibOberonLib.objs
- rename obj/OberonLib.objsa obj/LibOberonLib.objsa
-
-
- List of Changes to do in the Modules
- ====================================
-
- This is a list of changes to be done in the original AmigaOberon
- modules to work together with the current version of Interfaces.
- Please check whether this changes still have to de done to the
- version of modules you have. No guaranty can be give for the
- completness and/or correctness of this list.
-
- Note for AO 3.10:
- The files NoGuruRq.mod and BreakRq.mod are obsolete, so don't
- hesitate to delete them. They are now generated out of NoGuru.mod
- respectivly Break.mod by setting a compiler switch.
-
- *changes for 40.15/3.4*
-
- · Alerts.mod
- replace every occurenc of RawDoFmt() through OldRawDoFmt()
-
- · FileReq.mod
- remove the '#NIL' behind asl.AslRequestTags(...)
-
- · io.mod
- - exchange the one occurance of STRPTR through LSTRPTR.
- - replace every occurenc of RawDoFmt() through OldRawDoFmt()
-
- · Display.mod
- You MUST NOT change the type STRPTR, since this would lead to big
- trouble (see note below, too). Instead change the tree
- assignments like
- nw.title := win.title;
- into
- nw.title := sys.ADR(win.title^);
-
-
- Release Notes
- =============
-
- *** 40.15/3.5 ***
-
- Intuition
- · export screenHires again (seems to be usefull :-)
- · IClass.reserved and Object.node are no longer exported
- · fixed flag values for AllocScreenBuffer()
- · changed flags for ScreenDeepth() into sets, thereby correcting
- the values
- · renamed sysIsSize... to sysisize... (sorry, typo)
- · PointInImage() should expect Graphics.Point as first Parameter,
- but changing the paramter's type would have lead to the address
- been moved into the register instead of the value itself (Point
- is a stuctured type). Thus the direct LVO call has been renamed
- to PointInImageL() and the new stub routine PointInImage() takes
- Graphics.Point as first parameter and hides the type-cast.
-
- Classface
- · CoerceMethod(A) didn't return a result
- · Added some aliasas for ignoring results (the 'M' of method is
- lowercase)
- · ObjectPtr (as argument for all procedures) is now Exec.APTR,
- since most times you have to cast or use odd things like
- SYSTEM.ADR(foo^).
-
- Locale
- · Added some missing definitions like LocaleBase and calendar
- types. This slipped through since I hadn't had the includes the
- very first version was derived from.
- · Removed a definition which sould not be there :-)
-
- Graphics
- · ObtainPen()'s last parameter is now correctly flags: LONGSET
- · TextExtent() is now defined correctly
-
- RealTime
- · Conductor.flags is not correctly defined as SET
-
- Utility
- · New procedures Bool2Long() and Long2Bool() for easy converting
- boolean tags
- · Second parameter of TagInArray() and FilterTagItems() is now
- ARRAY OF TagID, TagInArrayA() has been removed. After reading the
- autodocs another time it showed up that this are no arrays of
- TagItems but arrays of TagIDs.
-
- *** 40.15/3.4 ***
-
- · Graphics.Layer fields are now read-only ([Libs3] p.704)
- · Narrator.Mouth.shape is now read-only
- · new type Utility.AsmHookFunc for easier casting
- · Exec.SINGLE changed from LONGREAL to LONGSET to avoid intermix,
- constants in MathIEEESingBas.mod are now casted to Exec.SINGLE
-
- *** 40.15/3.3 ***
-
- · optimized Graphics.SaveSetWriteMask() (register parameters)
- · Utility.HookEntry() returns Exec.APTR;
- · Intuition.BuildEasyRequestArgs() passed arg1 in wrong register
- · Dos.SetMode() returns BOOLEAN (according to autodocs)
-
- *** 40.15/3.2 *** (was 40.17)
-
- · Bad, bad: Exec.mod had had no module body if compiled for
- AmigaOberon 3.10+. Fixed.
- · Dos.CSource.buffer is now Exec.LSTRPTR, too.
-
- *** 40.15/3.1 *** (was 40.16)
-
- · Commodities: PFT renamed to PFL
- · Dos.Fault() now returns LONGINT
- · IFFParse: errMamgled renamed to errMangled
- · Printer: Bugs in PrinterData and DeviceData removed
- · Workbench.WBArguments is now
- ARRAY MAX(LONGINT) DIV Size(WBArg) -1 OF WBArg;
-
- *** 40.15/3.0 *** (was 40.15)
-
- · all (* char) are now Exec.LSTRPTR !!!
- BEWARE: do not allocate a pointer of this type, since this will
- try allocate 2GB of memory
- do not dereference exept for VAR parameters and for
- procedures where $CopyArray- is set.
- See note above for changes in standard modules.
- · to improve date/type savety a lot of record/struct
- fields are marked as read-only or are not longer exported. E.g.
- in modules ASL, ConUnit, Config, Datatypes, DiskFont, Dos, Exec,
- Graphics, RealTime, ...
- · checked all imports wether they are marked if used in interface
- (e.G. SYSTEM)
- · includes Albert Weinerts 'Classface' package (originally named
- 'Boopsi')
- · includes Martin Honeffers 'RVI' package (for rexxvars)
- · all modules terminate with HALT(20) now if OpenLib() fails
- · a lot of small procedures now got register parameters for better
- code
-
- Dos
- · new type DeviceListAPtr, DevInfoAPtr, DosListAPtr
-
- Exec
- · bug with StackSwap() removed
- · new tpye LSTRPTR
-
- Commodities.mod
- · bug removed with constants duplicate, notify, unique
- · removed CxFilter (obsolete)
-
- GadTools
- · new constant value: 'noList' for short list locking (see RKMs)
-
- Gadgets
- · new Proc: CloseColorWheel()
-
- Graphics
- · new PROCEDURE GetOPen synonym for consistency with
- SettOutlinePen/SetOPen
-
- InputEvent
- · InputEvent is now only a dummy base type
-
- Intuition
- · OpGet.storage is now pointer to Exec.ADDRESS
- · bug removed: SetScreenposition()-Flags
-
- Utility
- · new type HookFunc
- · new PROCEDURE GetTagDataP(A) --- nachsehen
- · introduced TagListPtr (more security and comfort)
- · removed bug in SMult32 UMult32
-
- Workbench
- · Type WBArguments is now ARRAY MAX(INTEGER) OF WBArg (was ARRAY 256)
-
- *** 40.5 ***
-
- Added interfaces
- · CDDevice.mod (original name is devices/cd.h but CD.mod would be to short)
- · LowLevel.mod
- · NonVolatile.mod
- · RealTime.mod
-
- Renamed DataTypes.mod to Datatypes.mod (was tippo)
-
- Removed interface DTClass.mod:
- this is was originaly a prototype for DTClass and is not usable
- in Oberon this way.
-
-
- *** 39.108 ***
-
- · all names of libs, devices etc. are now exported constants
- · removed some tippos
- · optical clean up
-
- Dos
- · intoduced type 'ArgsStruct' and some additional types to improve
- type savety for ReadArg().
- · ReadArgs() now want's this type as parameter, OldReadArgs() still
- has old parameters.
-
- Exec
- · new type LONGBOOL and consts LTRUE, LFALSE since used in
- different interfaces
- · RawDoFmt() now returns e.APTR, OldRawDoFmt returns nothing
-
- Intuition
- · some u.TagItemPtrs are now u.TagListPtrs for easier handling
- (e.g. in boopsi messages).
- · MakeScreen, RemakeDisplay and RethinkDisplay now return LONGINT;
- Oldxxx still return nothing
- · OldActivatedWinodw() removed (unnecesary).
-
- Locale
- · constant identifiers now start with lower case charakters
- · clean up
-
- Utility
- · new type 'TagListPtr' to improve handling of Taglists
- · some functions return TagListPtr instead of e.ADDRESS;
-
- Added interfaces
- AmigaGuide.mod (supplied by Lars Düning)
- Bullet.mod
- CardRes.mod
- DTClass.mod
- DataTypes.mod
- Gadgets.mod
- Prefs.mod
- Sana2.mod (supplied by Nicolas Benezan [bene])
-
- Literature:
-
- [Libs3] RKM Libraries, 3rd Edition
- [Devs3] RKM Devices, 3rd Edition
-
- Enjoy it!
- +++hartmut
-
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