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- Public (software) Library
- Programming Library
-
- Descriptions and Compilation Copyright 1993 Nelson Ford
- Duplication, reprinting and distribution of these descriptions is restricted.
- See LICENSE.DOC in the PSL_NEWS directory for complete information
-
-
- =====Pascal, part 2
-
-
- CONTENTS:
-
- -----MISC
- -----DATA_INP
- -----KYB_MOUS: keyboard, mouse, joystick routines.
- -----LIBRARY: various collections of routines/libraries.
- -----SYSTEM
-
- =========================================================
-
- -----MISC
-
- [CDPLAY]
- CD-Play (Armstrong, Michael W.; $0) allows you to access MSCDEX extension
- for the CD-ROM drivers.
-
- [COLORDH]
- Colors 1.3 (Hood, Doug; $0) is a TP unit that lets you control the color of
- your dialog's buttons.
-
- [DATASJ]
- DataStrucJones (Jones, Jeremy; $35) drills you on data structures and
- algorithms.
-
- [GETOPT]
- GetOPT (Anez, Juancarlo; $0) lets you define command line switches (program
- options) and parse any command line accordingly.
-
- [JDBTREE]
- JDBtree 1.20 (Darling, Jeff; $0) demonstrates how to use Binary trees.
- Executable files are also included. Requires TP 5.5. (The author can no
- longer be reached at the address provided in the documentation.)
-
- [NULVAR]
- Nulvar is a routine to null all variables.
-
- [Overinit]
- Overinit 6.0 expands the heap dynamically during program execution, taking
- memory away from the overlay buffer.
-
- [MAP2USE]
- Map2Uses (Welsh, Jim; $0) reads a .MAP file and extracts a program's USES
- list from it. Source code is included.
-
- [PAS1]
- PAS1 (Shoval, Ben; $0) is heavily documented code for an ANSI screen
- drawing program.
-
- [TCHLP3]
- Tchlp3 (Van Den Berghe, Vincent; $0) converts Borland's THELP files into
- Microsoft's QuickHelp format.
-
- [THERM]
- Therm (Hood, Doug; $0) is a progress gauge in the form of a thermometer.
-
- [TURBCAS]
- TurboCAS 1.0 (Corll, Brian; $0) is a unit for accessing FAX cards such as
- Intel's Connection CoProcessor.
-
- [XDIALOG]
- X_Dialog (Aiken, Donn; $0) shows how to create a scrolling list box with
- user-specified checkmark. It also has a drop-down menu bar.
-
- [CHCKRS]
- CHCKRS
- is TP6 source code for a Checkers game.
-
- [ESPOOL]
- ESPooler 1.1
- (Webb, Douglas; $10-$30)
- allows easy addition of a spooler to your Turbo Pascal programs. It can use
- the heap, EMS, or XMS.
-
- [FlxKey]
- FlxKey 1.1
- (McLoughlin, Guy; $15)
- is a unit that lets you create encrypted user registration keys for programs.
-
- [GR_COL]
- GR_COL
- (Rivers, Jerry; $0)
- contains routines for using standard text output in graphics modes.
-
- [HYPERL]
- HyperLINK 1.0
- (BGASoft, ASP; $20)
- is a complete system for adding Hypertext help to your programs. No special
- editors or linkers are required.
-
- [LZRTPU]
- LzrTPU
- (Smedley, Bob; $0)
- is a unit for printing reports with an HP LaserJet. Most of the commonly used
- formatting commands have been provided as functions. Also included is
- SHADETXT, which shows how to write shaded text to an HPLJ.
-
- [OBJTool]
- OBJTool 2.3
- (Hanlin, Thomas G. III; $14)
- is a tool for manipulating OBJ files. It allows you to search OBJ files,
- view file stats, delete default libraries and languages, check for
- validity, repair checksum errors, and rename publics, externals, and
- default libraries.
-
- [OVERXMS]
- Overlays in XMS 1.2
- (Leijen, Wilber van; $0)
- allows you to add XMS support to overlaying in TP.
-
- [PRTYPAS]
- PrettyPascal 1.0
- (Invariant Software; $30)
- makes Pascal program files more readable. This is done by spacing operators,
- procedure calls, and control guards, and by reformatting the code to a
- specified form and indentation.
-
- [SBVoice]
- SBVoice 1.0
- (Mathur, Amit K.; $0)
- is a TP6 unit containing source code for using the voice playback capability of
- the Sound Blaster card.
-
- [STATBOX]
- Statbox
- (Mitchel, Patrick; $0)
- is a unit for displaying progress of a procedure. Demos and source
- included.
-
- [TVCOPY]
- TVCopy
- (Midwinter, Stewart; $0)
- is TP6 source code to demonstrate how to pop out of a dialog box, open a
- list box containing data from a file, and copy the desired data into
- several input lines in the input dialog box.
-
- [BROWSE]
- Browse
- is a TP routine that allows the user to browse through a text file.
-
- [Desq]
- Desq 4.2
- (LeMay, James H. ASP; $0)
- contains routines to interface DESQview with TP 4.0. Some of these
- routines are useful for direct screen writing utilities like QWIK42.ARC
-
- [DOLRWRD]
- DollarWord
- (Loew, Rob; $0)
- is a TP5.5 Unit for converting a number from the form "###,###.##" to the
- spelled-out format for check writing. The program works on number strings from
- 0.00 to 999,999.99. The source code is included.
-
- [EVENTQ]
- Eventq
- (Schafer, Steve; $0)
- contains a unit which implements an event queue for Turbo Vision applications.
- This unit would enable you to easily make a script-driven TV app. Source code is
- included.
-
- [FSTWAIT]
- FastWait 1.0
- (Southern Software; $0)
- is a routine for inserting timing delays in your code that are accurate even on
- fast (20mhz+) machines.
-
- [TIMERH]
- High Precision Timer 5.5
- (Eagle Performance Software; $0)
- is the Pascal source code for a high precision timer to 1-microsecond
- resolution and up to 24-hour duration.
-
- [INTCASE]
- IntCase
- is a unit which performs international case conversion functions.
-
- JoyStck
- JonSoft Technologies Inc.
- $0
- is a Joystick interface for TP 5.X and above.
-
- [KEYMAKR]
- KeyMaker 2.0
- (Franz, Carl A.; $10)
- is a set of routines for making hash-keys for names and address. The keys
- support Soundex searches.
-
- [MICROT]
- MicroT
- contains Pascal source code for high resolution delay timing to 0.838
- microsecond accuracy using the speaker timer chip. It does not disturb running
- TSR clocks, and no self calibration is required. It allows other work to occur
- while waiting for time delay, such as write/draw to screen.
-
- [MOVE32]
- Move32
- (Toth, Thomas A. Jr.; $0)
- is a set of auto-detecting routines to use the 32-bit data bus of the
- 80386/80486 microprocessors, when present. If one of these processors is not in
- use, these routines use 16 XFers, still making them faster than the Turbo Move()
- proc when moving large blocks of information.
-
- [MortPay]
- MortPay 4.1
- (Brown, R. E. & Gilbert, Raymond A.; $0)
- is TP5 code for a loan amortization program.
-
- [OBJSTR]
- Objstr
- (Fralix, Jim; $0)
- uses less space than a standard string, yet it can be accessed as a standard
- string.
-
- [PASMAIL]
- Pascal Mail Label
- (Harrell, Tim; $0)
- is Pascal source code for a mail list program.
-
- [PICKLST]
- PickList
- (Watson, Blake; $?)
- contains examples of multi-selection picklists for Turbo Vision.
-
- [Strg]
- Strg 5.7
- (Eagle Performance Software; $39)
- is a set of 109 high speed routines for processing strings, characters, and all
- types of numbers including case, classification, comparison, conversions, copy,
- count, delete, format, justification, membership, parse, position, replace,
- search, sort, tabbing, ASCIIZ, many with match/ignore case and many more.
-
- [TPhrt]
- TPhrt 3.00
- (Ryle Design; $8)
- is a software "toolbox" of routines to manipulate one hundred different timers
- each with one microsecond resolution. TPhrt makes it easy to very accurately
- time nearly any synchronous or asynchronous event your PC can encounter.
-
- [TPJR]
- TP Joystick Routines 3.0b
- (Howarth, David B.; $0)
- is a set of TP routines for joysticks.
-
- [TVPAL]
- TVPal
- (Schafer, Steve; $?)
- is a tutorial on Turbo Vision palettes.
-
- [VDRV]
- VDrv
- is an external TP function to test whether a drive exists in a system
- without attempting to read from the drive. Source included.
-
- [ZTFDD]
- ZTFDD
- is a routine that can be used to format and combine different data types in a
- Write statement.
-
-
- -----DATA_INP
-
- [ASG]
- ASG 5.2, RASG 5.0 & BlueBag 5.2 (Roncalio, John; $45) AtSayGet is TP5
- routine for a line editor with WordStar compatibility.
-
- ReadASG allows full screen editing of data entry. Up to 64 of the twelve
- AtSayGet procedures can be joined on one "page" to be "read" together, and up
- to 10 pages of ASG procedures can be active at a time.
-
- BlueBag 5.2 includes routines for modifying the cursor, CRT tricks, dates,
- string processing, testing printer status, and multiple overlapping windows.
-
- [CWDKIT]
- Centiwrite 1.10 (Saucci, Andrew M. Jr. ASP; $20-$250) is a full-screen
- editor which Turbo Pascal 5.0 programmers can add to their own programs
- when small editing tasks are required.
-
- [CoUn]
- CoUn 2.0 (Franz, Carl A.; $0) is a unit that Compresses/Uncompresses string
- data in order to save disk space in your data files that allow variable
- length records.
-
- [FIELDDH]
- Fields (Hood, Doug; $0) is an expanded fields unit. It includes color
- inputlines, auto-uppercase input, path and drive validating,
- noecho/password input, and date input.
-
- [FInput]
- FInput 1.2 (Bauer, Allen; $0) is an input routine that supports several
- data types, including formatted input for all the numerical types,
- keystroke filtering and uppercase conversion, field justification, and
- range checking.
-
- [FMTLINE]
- FMTLine (Sprenger, J. John; $0) is a descendant of tInputLine which allows
- validation of names, telephone numbers, postal codes, money, and more.
-
- [INSERT]
- Insert.pas (Midwinter, Stewart; $0) demonstrates how to read an input line
- in a dialog box and place output in another input line in the same box
- while the box stays open.
-
- [KEYINP]
- KeyInp (Griffin, Richard F.; $0) allows you to set up data entry routines
- quickly and simply. It also gives the programmer the capability to override
- the entry routine and use another procedure to handle function keys.
-
- [MAKECAS]
- MakeCase 1.00 (Ackermann, John R. Jr.; $0) generates a CASE statement of
- menu choices from a source code file created by Turbo Professional's
- MakeMenu utility.
-
- [MGN]
- MGN (Keefe, Ed; $0) is TP5 code and the executable for a Menu Engine. It
- contains most of the logic to put a simple, light-bar menu on the screen.
-
- [OVERWRT]
- OverWrt (Miser, Dan; $0) contains an object to allow toggling between then
- insert and overwrite modes in a TEdit Control. Source code is included.
-
- [PICKS]
- Picks (Haluska, John; $0) is a menu bar unit with source code.
-
- [REAL_R]
- Real-Range (Schafer, Steve; $0) is a unit that validates the range of input
- for real numbers.
-
- [tvDMX]
- tvDMX 1.5 (Beck, Randolph; $18) is a Turbo Vision unit for multi-record
- data entry in a row/column format.
-
- [TurbIO]
- TurboIO (Meacham, Bill; $?) is a set of Turbo Pascal tools for controlling
- console data entry and display. The routines give the programmer control
- over cursor movement through data entry forms displayed on the screen not
- only from field to field but from screen to screen as well.
-
-
- -----KYB_MOUS: keyboard, mouse, joystick routines.
-
- [FastKey]
- FastKey 1.1 (Holley, Steve; $20) is a TP6 unit that provides low-level
- monitoring of the keyboard, keeping track of which keys are pressed and
- which are not. Sample files included.
-
- [GRABKEY]
- GrabKey is sample code that illustrates how to get the scan code of each
- key pressed without removing the keypress from the key buffer so that it
- can be further processed by the system.
-
- [PasMac]
- PasMac 2.0 (Newman, Norman; $15) is a keyboard macro program especially
- designed for Pascal programmers.
-
- [SCAN_PA@]
- Scancode (Anderson, Pat; $0) demonstrates how to add low-level keyboard
- handling to your Turbo Pascal programs.
-
- [TRANS]
- Translat and Keyword (Yoder, Gil ASP; $?) TRANSLAT will allow you to remap
- from one to five keys on your keyboard. Source code is included.
-
- [MOUSETP]
- MouseTP5 (Gilroy, T. Russell; $0) is mouse menu support for TP5 using a
- Mouse Systems 3-button mouse or compatible such as Genius or Logitech. The
- Mouse Systems .MSC source and compiled versions are included.
-
- [MSDEMO]
- MSDemo (Landry, Bob; $0) is a simple program which exhibits some of the
- capabilities of using an interrupt driven interface to the mouse. It works
- on TP 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5. Source code is included.
-
- [Mouse]
- Mouse 3.1 (Day, Michael; $0) is an extensive set of mouse functions for
- TP5.
-
- [OGLE]
- Ogle Eyes (Day, Michael; $0) is TP5 code for a routine that watches the
- mouse wherever it goes, or any point on the screen. It can show three
- possible eye styles on the screen.
-
- [THEMOUS]
- TheMouse (Kwast, Kevin A.; $10) is a set of routines for accessing a
- Microsoft, Logitech, or compatible mouse from Turbo Pascal.
-
- [TMOUSE]
- TP PD Mouse (Henderson, Ken; $0) is a Mouse to key translation unit
- (requires TPRO).
-
- [TPrat5]
- TPrat5 1.0 (Smart, J. A.; $0) is a Microsoft-compatible mouse driver to
- provide mouse support for Borland's Turbo Pascal 5.0.
-
- [MOUSLI]
- MouseLib 8.0 (Loewy Ron; $15) is a Turbo Pascal event driven mouse library.
- It supports the standard mouse API, plus extensions for event driven
- programming, support for DPMI mode, text, graphic and true VGA cursor. It
- also includes DESQview support unit and video hardware support functions.
-
- [MOUSE_TL]
- Mousetools (Anderson, Nels ASP; $10) is a set of TP5 programming utilities
- providing most of the necessary procedures to use a mouse in your own
- programs.
-
-
- -----LIBRARY: various collections of routines/libraries.
-
- [FLXLIST]
- FlexList (Power SoftWare; $14) provides TP5.5 applications with a generic
- hybrid stack-queue-list-array object. There are 31 methods that allow you
- to push, pop, insert, delete, sort, store, recall, etc. lists of any type
- data.
-
- [FUTILS]
- FUtils (Kerr, Rex; $20) is a set of TP5.5 units, mostly written in
- assembler. Routines included do very fast swapping of variables; fast
- conversion between Pascal and C strings and faster Move and FillChar;
- array-based stack handling; fast BIOS calls (22 routines); fast screen
- writing and reading; windowing; and more. Each unit has many routines in
- it.
-
- [MISCUNI]
- MiscUnit (Moehrke, Geoffrey; $0) is a set of several units written for TP
- 5.0. Most of these units require Turbo Professional 5.05 or higher to
- compile. Functions include display of an on-screen clock in any program; a
- simple method of displaying pop-up message windows; an improved Printer
- unit; data entry routines; an easy way to implement stacks or queues of any
- type; mapping of I/O error codes to strings; and more. Pascal source code
- included.
-
- [SWEEPET]
- Sweep 1.10 (Tauck, Eric; $10) is a library of routines for managing memory
- and maintaining a heap. The advantage of the Sweep Library over the heap
- routines built into Turbo Pascal or Turbo C is that the Sweep Library never
- suffers from memory fragmentation.
-
- [UTILITY]
- Utility (Gemini Systems; $0) is a TP unit including many useful programming
- utilities: save screen, screen input, encryption, DIR, print-screen, date
- routines, and more.
-
- [VGAFNT]
- VGAFont (Tamburino, Joseph J.; $10) is a set of routines that allow
- graphics to be displayed with ordinary EGA or VGA text modes.
-
- [Zroutin]
- Zroutine 1.1 (Zimmerman, Bob; $0) is a set of TP5 routines you can add to
- your programs to sound a beep a specified number of times, get command line
- parameters from users, set text color, modify cursor attributes, trim
- leading spaces in a string or pad a string, create a window, shell to dos,
- "press any key to continue", and much more. Also included are a formatted
- input routine and I/O error routines.
-
- [Boosters]
- Boosters (George F. Smith & Company; $19-$35) is a set of routines for
- Turbo Pascal programmers. Included is sixty-three assembler-coded routines,
- screen generator, example programs, and complete documentation. Boosters
- supports string, video, heap, DOS, and special-effects routines in TEXT
- mode, for any IBM PC/PS or true compatible.
-
- [T_WHEELS]
- Turbo Wheels is a utility function library disk.
-
-
- -----SYSTEM
-
- [CPUIDJL]
- CPUID (Leonard, John D. II; $0) is a TP6 procedure that will identify a
- computer's CPU and FPU coprocessor.
-
- [ENVCALC]
- EnvCalc demonstrates storing variables using a DOS-like environment table,
- and using them in SET, CALC, LET, and ECHO commands.
-
- [ERROR87]
- Error87 (Murdoch, D.J.; $10) is a set of tools to help debug floating point
- code. Unit ERROR87 tries to determine the cause of run-time error 207,
- "Invalid floating point operation", and fix the reported error address.
- DV87 fixes bugs in Desqview 2.26 8087 error handling, and NMI fixes
- problems with 8087 error reporting in some XT machines.
-
- [ERRPAT]
- ErrPat (Larsen, Per B.; $0) is an INLINE MACRO which allows a procedure or
- function to generate a runtime-error with the address of the CALLING
- statement.
-
- [EXECDEMO]
- ExecDemo (Rubenking, Neil J.; $0) demonstrates the use of new TP 5.0
- routines to enhance the EXEC procedure.
-
- [EXIT]
- Exit (Dubois, David Neal; $0) is a TP5 procedure that makes it easier to
- set up exit routines in Turbo Pascal. Besides saving the bother of dealing
- with the ExitProc variable, RegisterExitProcedure has the added benefit of
- forcing the compiler to check that the procedure is suitable.
-
- [EXARRAY]
- ExtendedArray (Wentz, Eric C.; $0) is a generic ram/diskfile "hybrid"
- array-like object. The ExtendedArray object resides in both ram and on
- disk, swapping portions in and out as needed. It is reasonably efficient
- for up to two meg or so (more for larger array elements). Requires units
- included in Genericity.
-
- [FEFIX]
- FEFix (Faubion, Jay; $0) will repair the headers in Borland Stroked Font
- files that are damaged as a result of a save action by the Borland Font
- Editor, FE.EXE, found in the BGI Toolkit.
-
- [HEAP55]
- Heap 5.5 (TurboPower Software; $0) is a set of TP 5.5 units and utilities
- for managing and extending the heap.
-
- [HEAP3]
- Heap3 is a TP5 unit that implements a heap manager similar to Turbo Pascal
- 3.0.
-
- [HOTMOD]
- HotMod (Schuster, Ron; $0) lets you reassign the hot keys in the IDE.
-
- [INST]
- Inst (Aaron, Ron; $0) is code that shows how to prevent multiple instances
- of a program in different VMs.
-
- [MAKETXT]
- MakeTxt converts a Borland help file, such as TURBO.HLP, into a text file
- that is suitable for input to the Turbo Power Software MAKEHELP program.
-
- [MEMSTR]
- MemStr is a demonstration of a technique in TP for storing a file of
- strings in a memory array at runtime.
-
- [ObjectA]
- ObjectA 1.01 (Rosenberger, Rob ASP; $0) is a TP 5.5 unit that builds on the
- OBJECTS.PAS file on disk three of the TP package.
-
- [ONLINE]
- Online (Bibb, Don; $0) checks the status of the printer using INT 17H,
- Service 2.
-
- [OVRHAN]
- Overlay Handler (Furman, Roy; $0) allows an application to explicitly load
- and unload overlays onto the heap without interfering with TP 5.5's
- management of the overlay buffer. Source and demo included.
-
- [OVERLOK]
- Overlock (Schuster, Ron; $0) is a TP5.x unit containing the functions
- OvrLock and OvrUnlock. OvrLock places a "lock" on the overlay buffer and
- OvrUnlock removes it.
-
- [TFDD]
- TFDD (Ranger, Philippe; $5) contains the source for four object-oriented
- units that illustrate and apply TFDD's - text file device drivers.
-
- [TP_TSR]
- TP_Tsr (Prescott, Richard W.; $0) illustrates a method for writing TP4/5
- TSRs. The interrupt hook and return procedures are written in assembly
- language, however the remainder of the application can be written entirely
- in Pascal, can use up to 64K stack, and can Chain or Return from Interrupt
- from any point in the Pascal Code.
-
- [TPFort]
- TPFort 1.0 (Murdoch, D. J.; $0) is a collection of several procedures that
- will allow Microsoft Fortran routines to be called from Turbo Pascal.
-
- [TAP]
- Turbo Apprentice 1.0 (Cypress Systems, Inc.; $15) is a TSR utility which
- enables you to extend Turbo Pascal's context-sensitive help system to
- include reference information for your own units, procedures and functions.
- Requires a hard disk and TP4+.
-
- [HEAP7]
- Heap7 (Donais, Roger; $0) implements a protected mode heap supporting Mark,
- GetMem, and Release. A program can simultaneously use the heap provided by
- this unit and the SYSTEM heap.
-
- [MRKRLS]
- MrkRls (Cariotoglou, Mike; $0) simulates the operation of Mark/Release to
- port a real-mode program to protected mode.
-
- [RUN123]
- Run123 (Prescott, Richard W.; $8) illustrates a method for writing TP4/5
- interrupt routines to modify the behavior of an existing program which is
- executed as a subprocess. TP5 source and assembly code is provided.
-
- [Sys60]
- Sys60 6.0a (Eagle Performance Software; $19) replaces the SYSTEM.TPU in
- your TURBO.TPL library and provides 32 functions such as Pos and Div that
- are as much as eight times faster. Turbo Pascal 6.0 is required.
-
- [TPTSR]
- TPTSR (Small, John; $20) is a TP unit that turns your Turbo Pascal 5.5
- program into a TSR. Includes a demo TSR (popup calendar).
-
- [VIRTMEM]
- VirtuMem (Techsonix Marketing; $18) is a virtual memory system that extends
- dynamic memory into expanded memory and then onto disk. It works with any
- structures that would normally be dynamically stored as part of the heap,
- including, but not limited to arrays, records, and objects. Virtual memory
- size can be up to 4 gigs.
-