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Article 218 of comp.binaries.amiga:
Path: fishpond!nud!asuvax!noao!ncar!mailrus!ulowell!page
From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.amiga
Subject: v02i074: rexxarplib - rexx interface library v2.0, Part01/03
Message-ID: <10649@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 88 06:05:14 GMT
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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Approved: page@swan.ulowell.edu
Submitted-by: mjl@emx.utexas.edu (Maurice LeBrun)
Posting-number: Volume 2, Issue 74
Archive-name: libraries/rexxarplib20.uu1
This is the first part of the rexxarplibrary distribution. Please run
each part through sh, then concatenate and uudecode.
Following is a brief description of the contents taken from the doc file.
RexxArpLib.Library Version 2.0
==============================
Copyright (C) 1988
by
W.G.J. Langeveld
Originally, this library was supposed to be an ARexx interface
to the ARP library. However, although it indeed interfaces to some of
the ARP functions, it has become much more of an interface to various
Intuition functions. I have considered renaming the library to
something else, but by now everyone refers to it by this name, so I'll
leave it like it is.
Version 2.0 is pretty much the final version. The library has
grown considerably since the first release, and it is about as big as
a library should ever get. If I find the need for a lot of other
functions, they'll have to go into a different library.
The library contains over 50 functions now. One is Charlie's
famous ARP file requester, another is a simple combination
string/boolean requester that does auto-everything. All you have to do
is specify the strings you want it to display. Then there are
environment variable things, and a simple message window you can keep
hanging around. On popular request, there is now a wildcard expander
(not to be confused with a 'directory' function!) that uses the new
Rexx Variables Interface (RVI).
The major new things though, are the interface routines to
Intuition. You can now open screens and windows, add boolean and
string gadgets to them as well as menus, draw lines and areas and
circles and whatever. You can make your gadgets, menus, and windows
send messages to wherever you like and you can format those messages,
though they have to ARexx messages, in any way you like, using any
information that's currently available. All this is rather hard to
explain. You'll really have to play with it and look at some examples.
As usual, this stuff is NOT public domain, but freely distributable.
--
Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page
Have five nice days.