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TEGL WINDOWS TOOLKIT II - Release II
Introductory Package
COPYRIGHT 1991 TEGL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
This is an introductory package for evaluating the TEGL WINDOWS
TOOLKIT II. You may use it to create programs on a trial basis. You
make not use these programs in a commercial environment or distribute
them to others.
The commercial version of the TEGL WINDOWS TOOLKIT is provided with
royalty-free distribution of compiled applications.
What is the TEGL Windows Toolkit II?
The TEGL Windows Toolkit II is really three toolkits in one; a
graphics interface, a memory manager and a window manager. Together
these parts provide a programming environment.
What does the TEGL Windows Toolkit II do?
The TEGL Windows Toolkit II provides tools for creating
eye-appealing, functional and intuitive graphical user interfaces
in your programs.
Overlapping windows are automatically managed. Window images are
saved so the application does not have to redraw a window if it is
just moved or uncovered. A window that is resized does have to be
redrawn.
The overhead of maintaining graphics images in memory is overcome
by the virtual memory manager. Your application can also use
virtual memory.
The TEGL Windows Toolkit II handles all mouse and keyboard
activities, this includes all selections of menu items and mouse
click areas. For instance, when a user wants to move a window, the
TeglSupervisior handles all of the user interaction from the click
of the right mouse button on a window to when the button is
released to indicate the new position. You may also define your own
Event to look after window moves. An Event is a funtion that you
write that gets control when the TEGLSupervisor determines that an
action has occured.
TEGL GRAPHICS INTERFACE
The graphics consist of a low level set of routines that look
after the initialization and loading of the correct graphics driver,
as well as, graphics primitives and a high-level interface that
provides traditional graphics features. This high-level interface
module, TGraph, is a virtual plug in replacement for the
Borland Graphics Interface (BGI).
Users familiar with BGI will have little problem utilizing the TEGL
Graphics Interface (TGI). This part of the TEGL Windows Toolkit II can
be used separately from the rest of the toolkit. There are no
dependencies on the memory manager nor the window manager.
TEGL VIRTUAL MEMORY MANAGER
The memory manager provides two important items: a heap manager
that provides blocks of memory greater than 64K and virtual memory
so the heap can utilize other memory resources (EMS or hard drive).
The memory manager can be used by itself, that is, it has no
dependencies on either the graphics tools or the window manager.
The programer utilizes the memory manager through a handle. The memory
allocated this way can be swapped out (to disk or EMS) to satisfy
other requests, then swapped back in when needed.
When working with larger graphics buffers virtual memory becomes a
necessity. Generally you can ignore the virtual memory manager
since it works tranparently with the window manager. You only need
to use it if your application will need to use virtual memory.
TEGL WINDOW MANAGER
The window manager uses both TEGL graphics and the virtual memory
manager. A primary job of the window manager is to look after the
graphics image on each window and to keep track of where a window
is located on the stack. When a window is moved, brought to the top
of the stack or disposed of, then the window manager determines
which screen image has to be restored. This may involve resolving
many image fragments from numerous windows, fortunately this is
done automatically and the programmer needn't concern himself with
it. When the window manager is processing graphic images and there
are a number of windows displayed, RAM memory may not be sufficient
to do all the processing and virtual memory is used.
Progamming with the TEGL Windows Toolkit II requires a different
strategy than traditional structured programming. This doesn't mean
that your programs will be un-structured, just that the hierarchy
will be less straight forward, but more dynamic.
INITIALIZATION
There are several items to set for optomizing the system at start-up.
* window manager resolution
* standard heap size
* reserved heap size
* video mode
* registering a driver
The window manager resolution determines the minimum amount of memory
required by the virtual memory manager to process images. Roughly it
require twice what the resolution is set to. See WINDOW MANAGER.
You must specify how much memory you will need for standard heap use. Be
sure to allow for the amount of memory that the compiler functions will
require. In particular buffered I/O in C can need a fair bit. If unsure
about memory requirements then you should code some monitoring functions
that watch this. The function to call to set the heap use is:
SetStandardHeapSize( heapsize : LongInt );
The next function does the video startup and sets the initial amount of the
huge heap.
TeglInit( VideoModeName : string; HugeMinimum : LongInt );
The videomodename is the required mode to startup in, (see
videoautodetect and video modes which follows) and hugeminimum is
the initial size of the huge heap reserverd area.
VideoAutoDetect;
This function will autodetect the graphics hardware and return the
appropriate video mode name. Note that Super VGA modes cannot be
autodetected. If your program is designed to work with one of these
then it should have an override or be installable for that mode.
A safe start up for a program would be:
MaxWindowSize = $00008000; {-- 32 K}
SetStandardHeapSize($FFFF); {-- 64 K}
TeglInit(VideoAutoDetect,$4000);
Then adjust the values to find the optimum. Set maxwindowsize to the
highest possible value for best performance.
For simplified startup (as most of the example programs use) just
use either EasyTegl or twEasyStart as the first call in the main
body of your program.
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EVENTS
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Events are mouse clicks and key presses. There can also be timer-events
but these are more tricky. When an event occurs TeglSupervisor (the event
supervisor) calls an event-handler.
Event-handlers are always far calls. They must either be declared in the
interface, be preceded by the {$F+} compiler directive or be declared with
the far directive FAR (only available in Turbo Pascal 6.0 and Stonybrooke
Pascal+).
The declaration of an event-handler is:
{$F+}
function myevent(ifs : imagestkptr, ms mouseclickptr): word;
begin
end;
The parameters ifs and ms tell use what frame this event was called from
and the corresponding mouse click area on that frame. Depending on what
an event-handler needs to know these items contain information that is
useful. The ImageStkPtr is always the from the frame the mouse click
area orginated from. Sometimes there may be related frames, in this
case that frame is passed in the related stack. It can be accessed by
using ifs^.relatedstack.
Event-handlers are called from menu selections, keypresses, mouse clicks,
button presses (a variant of mouse click), and timer ticks.
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TEXT and FONTS SYSTEM
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The TELG WINDOWS TOOLKIT II uses fast bit-mapped fonts and can also
use the BGI vector fonts.
SetTeglFont(font: Pointer);
Set the font that will be used in subsequent text output. To use the
f8x8bold you would type in:
SetTeglFont(@f8x8bold);
Note the address of operator! The fonts are stored as external procedures
to get around the 64K data area limit.
GetTeglFont: Pointer;
Returns the currently set font.
The names of the available fonts follow. These are contained in the
unit TEGLFONT.
pc3270, apls7, brdwx19, broadway, countdwn, fraktur, gaelic,
georgian, italic, lcdfont, light14, light9, litalic, m3270,
ocr, sansx19, script2, script, wndws19, ega09, font14, font07,
font07cp, font09, future, oenglish, pc24, pc9,
f8x12nor, f8x12bol, f8x8norm, f8x8bold, f8x8ital, f7x7norm,
f7x7bold, f6x6norm, f5x6norm
Procedure OutTeglTextXY(x, y: Integer; Str: String);
x, y are the coordinates to place the text at. Str is the string for
output. The font used is the currently set font.
This routine is affected by the justification settings set by
SetTextJustify and color by SetColor.
Only bit-mapped fonts are output by OutTeglTextXY.
SetProportional(OnOff: Boolean);
This sets proportional spacing for bit-mapped fonts. If it is set to
FALSE then the characters are spaces at 8 bits.
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END QUICK.TXT