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Short: ReqTools 2.5 - the requester toolkit (user)
Type: util/libs
Author: nico@augfl.be (Nico Francois), cmh@lls.se (Magnus Holmgren)
Uploader: cmh@lls.se (Magnus Holmgren)
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NOTE: This is the user archive. There are no includes, autodocs, glue
code, catalog sources or example files included.
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reqtools.library is a standard Amiga shared, runtime library. The purpose
of ReqTools is to make it a lot quicker and easier to build standard
requesters into your programs. ReqTools is designed with Commodore's style
guidelines in mind, all requesters have the look-and-feel of AmigaDOS
Release 2.
ReqTools features the following requesters: a query requester, a string
requester, a number requester, a file requester, a font requester, a
palette requester, a volume requester and a screenmode requester.
Also included are RTPatch (1.4) and RexxReqTools (1.3):
RTPatch is a small program that will re-route functions from most popular
requester libraries to ReqTools. Libraries currently supported are Arp, Req
and Asl. RTPatch will also patch some functions in Intuition to give you
improved system requesters.
RexxReqTools gives ARexx users easy access to a large family of requesters.
All requesters are easy to use; they require one or no arguments. But the
requesters also have a lot of power through several optional arguments and
through tagstrings. RexxReqTools itself doesn't implement any of these
requesters, it is a link between ARexx and ReqTools.
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RELEASE 2.5 (Library version 38.1387)
Now really includes RexxReqTools 1.3. Sorry about that.
RTPatch now reports itself as 1.4 (forgot to assemble that minor change
;).
Improved pragmas for SAS/C, to make better use of the tagcall. Note
that this may cause problems (I got a CXERR in one case). Also
changed the name to "reqtools_pragmas.h".
Changed the LED rendering a little. It is now done earlier, to work
nicer with custom handlers that can be slow in certain operations
(like ArcHandler).
Recompiled with SAS/C again. ;) I don't think any problem have been
introduced due to this.
Increased the pattern text buffer in the file requester.
The volume list in the file requester should now show all real volumes,
including e.g. network volumes. In fact, it should display the same
volumes as ASL, since the same algorithm is used. Thanks to Martin
Taillefer for showing me how to do it properly.
Added a little "hack" to make ReqTools work better with BetterEdit. It
was so simple, so why not? ;)
Added color wheel to the palette requester! There is a switch in the
preferences editor, in case you don't like it. Some notes: You need
properly installed colorwheel and gradientslider gadgets (part of OS
3.0 or higher) for it to be displayed. The colorwheel will only show
up if the screen and window are large enough. The gradient slider
doesn't have any fancy background currently, as it requires a rather
large number of colors to be displayed nicely, IMHO. And most
importantly; the top value of the slider is to the *left* for some
reason. Not my fault! ;)
Selecting parent in the file requester, when the parent does not exist
does now work. Sort of. The drawer gadget is now updated, so that you
can "parent back" to a drawer that do exist.
In the palette requester, when you are in copy, swap and spread modes,
the title of the window will show the current mode.
The palette requester should now work better on deep screens (more than
8 bits). It will then limit itself to display only 256 colors.
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ReqTools 2.5 - reqtools.library
Copyright (c) 1991-1994 Nico François
1995-1996 Magnus Holmgren