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- Short: Powerful GUI/Rexx interfacing system
- Author: (c)1996 Michael Sparks
- Uploader: mps102@bridge.anglia.ac.uk
- Version: Release Version 1
- Type: dev/e
- Files: Muse.lha, Muse.readme
- Distribution: Anywhere, anyone, FREEWARE!
-
- STOP PRESS, STOP PRESS, STOP PRESS...
- Muse now has a comprehensive support Web site available...
- http://www.anglia.ac.uk/~mps102/index.html
-
-
- Introducing Muse!
- =================
-
- What's Muse then?
- -----------------
- Muse is an evolving project with its end goal being highly usable, user
- configurable, interchangeable, extensible programs. This version is the
- first step towards that goal and is aimed at programmers using the language
- Amiga E. The system is a set of modules with the following features:
-
- The ability to define most multiply windowed interfaces (including
- menus, keyboard shortcuts etc), which can also be be script controlled
- via REXX, just by declaring them. The processing of all these many and
- varied inputs, however is via simple & standardised techniques. There
- are just two! The event processing system made available (the key
- technique); and the Virtual Visible Variable interface.
-
- It is designed to be efficent, flexible, fast, easy to use and ROBUST.
- Later versions will add many, many more powerful concepts. Of course a
- programming system is useless without documentation and examples. To that
- aim this distribution includes:
-
- o A FULL tutorial taking you from the basic program of opening a window
- and cutomising it, all the way through to a paint program and a simple
- database.
-
- o The basic example's source code is made available in both an amigaguide
- form (for easy reference when using the tutorial) and as separate
- source files - for easy compilation.
-
- o A fully hypertexted on-line reference document - with plain text
- version for those who don't like hyper-text - which deals with every
- part of Muse from the syntax of minor parts to conceptual explainations
- of other major parts.
-
- o Two quick reference guides for day-to-day use containing the key
- information needed to use Muse to the full.
-
- And as if all that wasn't enough, access to a World Wide Web page dedicated
- to supporting Muse! (http://www.anglia.ac.uk/~mps102/index.html
-
- System Requirements
- -------------------
- · An Amiga computer with version 2.04 upwards of the operating system.
- · A copy of AmigaE version 3.2 upwards REGISTERED. (code for as program
- using Muse irrelevant of _INTERFACE_ complexity is about 30K. A complex
- _PROGRAM_ *might* increase this!
- That's it. As a general note it is wise to have a hard disk as well. (Not a
- requirement for _Muse_ however!)
-
-
- Distribution contents
- ---------------------
- · The main Muse module with all its related modules. (with partial docs for
- some of the support modules)
- · A comprehensive tutorial including the tutorial sources up to example 14b
- in a hypertexted for for ease of reference between the tutorial doc and
- the source.
- · Completely low-level tested demonstration programs as detailed above.
- · 52 Standard images for use in either gadgets or menu options supplied as
- icons for ease of editing (everyone has an icon editor!).
- · Comprehensive and concise forms of documentation of the system.
-
-
- Author:
- Michael Sparks : csbs94mps@bridge.anglia.ac.uk
- 40 James Street, Cambridge. UK. Tel. (01223) 563995
-
-
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