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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 :
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- 1) A BBC Basic V linker
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- 2) A collection of libraries
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- The linker offers you the ability to link your Basic program with the libraries
- it uses, thus allowing compression and compilation, etc.
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- The collection of libraries currently offer you over 100k of procedures and
- functions in the following areas :
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- • Dynamic memory allocation (malloc, free, realloc, etc.)
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- • Main Wimp interaction (initialization, polling, etc.)
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- • Templates (loading, copying, etc.)
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- • Windows (creation, resizing, etc.)
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- • Menus (creating, linking with other menus/windows, etc.)
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- • Data Transfer (loading, saving, printing, etc.)
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- • Outline Fonts (cacheing, displaying, etc.)
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- • Draw Files (creating, displaying, etc.)
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- • Sprites (creating, displaying, etc.)
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- • Text (displaying plain text in a window)
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- • Icons (setting, selecting, etc.)
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- • Messages (handling 'Messages' files for language independent programs)
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- Plus general routines for handling arguments, screen size, calendar related
- calculations, etc.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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