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Welcome to release 2 of the complete BlibII package
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Introduction
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BlibII is a combined package containing 2 main parts :
1) A BBC Basic V linker
2) A collection of libraries
The linker offers you the ability to link your Basic program with the libraries
it uses, thus allowing compression and compilation, etc.
The collection of libraries currently offer you over 100k of procedures and
functions in the following areas :
Å Dynamic memory allocation (malloc, free, realloc, etc.)
Å Main Wimp interaction (initialization, polling, etc.)
Å Templates (loading, copying, etc.)
Å Windows (creation, resizing, etc.)
Å Menus (creating, linking with other menus/windows, etc.)
Å Data Transfer (loading, saving, printing, etc.)
Å Outline Fonts (cacheing, displaying, etc.)
Å Draw Files (creating, displaying, etc.)
Å Sprites (creating, displaying, etc.)
Å Text (displaying plain text in a window)
Å Icons (setting, selecting, etc.)
Å Messages (handling 'Messages' files for language independent programs)
Plus general routines for handling arguments, screen size, calendar related
calculations, etc.
BlibII is growing
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Already BlibII has grown to over twice the size that it was at it's first
release. This is due, in a large way, to Tom Hughes who has supplied the
'Draw', 'Drawwin', 'Font', 'Message', 'Sprite' and 'Transfer' libraries as well
as adding some extra bits to existing libraries.
But it shouldn't be allowed to stop there. If you have a library that you think
may be useful to others (even if it's a fairly specialised library) why not
send it in for inclusion.