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Ian Palmer & Tom Hughes present :
The Great BlibII Release III - The Sequel - With a thousand elephants
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Release 3 of BlibII contains the following items :
!BlibII - Basic Linking Application
!TestApp - An example application (unlinked) which demonstrates some
of the library procedures and functions.
Blib - Directory 19 library files, containing over 200 procedures
and functions.
Docs - Documentation for BlibII
Licences - End user licences for both the linker and supplied
library files.
Please make sure you read the end user licences and the documentation BEFORE
attempting to use the linker. Before linking you will need to install the
supplied libraries, this is explained in the documentation.
The main change noticeable since release 1 of BlibII is with the supplied
library collection. This is now over twice the original size. This is in
a large way due to the efforts of Tom Hughes who has supplied many new
libraries (Draw, DrawWin, Font, Message, Sprite and Transfer) as well as
several new functionality to existing libraries (in particular Wimp).
The supplied libraries now offer a massive collection of Wimp based procedures
and functions which will provide most of the interaction between your program
and the Wimp.
There is now a completely new Memory library (version 2.01) which is a
complete rewrite, and now offers all the functionality of the first version,
but with about 3 times the speed.
Finally, several bugs have been fixed.
Will it stop here?
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I certainly hope not. But the fastest way that the library can expand is
with contributions from others. So if you have any procedures/functions/
libraries you think will be useful to others (even if they are fairly
specialised) why not send them in to me for inclusion in the next release
of BlibII.
If you make extensions/corrections to existing libraries it would be helpful
if you only send those procedures/functions that you have changed.
Contacting the authors
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You can e-mail me at : ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (until Sept 1994)
or snail-mail me at : 40, Birch Crescent,
Aylesford,
Kent. ME20 7QE.
England.
Tom Hughes can be contacted at :
snail-mail : 21 Parklands, (there-after)
Wotton-under-Edge,
Gloucestershire,
GL12 7LT.
England.