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ClassAct Demo
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PLEASE READ THIS FILE COMPLETELY
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Welcome:
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ClassAct is a set of 17 BOOPSI classes published by Phantom Development LLC
and co-authored by Christopher Aldi, Timothy Aston, and Osma Ahvenlampi.
To use this demo you first run the included installation script because
the Classes directory needs to be copied to your SYS: partition. Or, if
you wish to keep the ClassAct Classes directory elsewhere, just be sure to
Assign Libs: ADD the location that it is in, eg:
Assign Libs: Work:ClassAct/Classes ADD
ClassAct provides object-oriented building blocks for your application in
the form of Intuition BOOPSI classes available as either shared run-time or
link-time libraries. As they are standard classes, they may be used with
any application environment supporting BOOPSI. ClassAct is a complete GUI
system in its own right, supporting evreything from simple buttons to an
advanced list management class, and includes a complete GUI layout system
class that lets you create font-sensitive and resizable interfaces quickly
and easily.
Programs that use ClassAct can be made freely distributable, shareware,
commercial, etc. as there is no fee for users! When you purchase ClassAct,
users of your software get to use all the functions of our classes that you
allow them to. This not only makes ClassAct a powerful and time-saving
choice for software developers, but an affordable and convenient one as well.
Since ClassAct all classes are BOOPSI, they automatically support all
sorts of great features, such as window relatively (resizability), 3.x
help, notification, and interconnections with other BOOPSI classes (which
do not necessarily have to be ClassAct classes). ClassAct classes are
totally standard BOOPSI objects, just like the colorwheel and gradient
sliders that come with release 3.x of the Amiga's operating system.
ClassAct classes are built for speed, power and efficiency.
All ClassAct classes are compatible with 2.04 (V37) thru 3.1 (V40)
releases of the Amiga operating system and take advantage of performance
increases available in release 3.x.
ClassAct is an expanding project, providing you with all the graphical
user interface tools you need to write your application. ClassAct is
currently up to 17 different classes, and the list is literally growing
all the time!
Gadget Classes:
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* Button gadget class
- powerful button class with many of options including built-in
arrow glyphs, tab-cycle support, custom images and more.
* CheckBox gadget class
- for checkbox gadgets, very much like GadTools CHECKBOX_KIND.
* Chooser gadget class
- for pop-up and drop-down menus simular in purpose to CYCLE_KIND.
* Fuel Gauge gadget class
- for progress indication, several features including optional
tick marks, and orientation settings.
* Integer gadget class
- an integer gadget with optional arrows.
* ListBrowser gadget class
- a listview supporting multiple columns, images, multi-select, etc.
* Layout gadget class
- for laying out gadgets and images in a font-sensitive and resizable
hierarchical group fashion.
* Palette gadget class
- for color selection, like GadTools PALETTE_KIND.
* RadioButton gadget class
- for radio button gadgets, like GadTools MX_KIND.
* Scroller gadget class
- a proportional scrollbar with arrows, and slider mode.
* SpeedBar gadget class
- for button tool bars (horizontal or vertical orientations) with
optional window title bar help messages.
* String gadget class
- a simple string gadget with bevel frame, compatible with strgclass.
Image Classes:
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* Bevel image class
- for drawing bevel grouping boxes
- supports all kinds of standard bevels, including titled grouping.
bevels, drop-box bevels, optional inner fill color and text, etc.
* Draw List image class
- for designing custom colorized and scaled vector/areafill images.
* Glyph image class
- for standard scalable system images
- includes many images: arrows, get file, get font, etc.
* Label image class
- makes multi-line labels mixing text, colors, images, styles, etc.
* Penmap image class
- for pen-remapped images.
Examples:
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Included for this demo are examples of some of the classes. We have only
included some of the examples to keep the size of the demo down. When you
purchase ClassAct, you get a complete set of examples for all the classes,
including example source. If you have OS Release 3.x (V39 or greater) AND
a 68020 CPU or greater, then you should install the layout.gadget.020
in place of layout.gadget using the CLI or any directory utility for
faster layout performance.
Should You Use ClassAct?:
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Have you written or are you currently in the process of developing Amiga
applications? If so, the answer is a very definite YES, you should be
using ClassAct.
The graphic user interfaces of most Amiga applications fit one or more of
the following descriptions:
- Non-existant (i.e. command line only)
- Not font-sensitive
- Not Locale sensitive
- Slow
- Unattractive
- Lacking in intuitiveness and originality
- Non-standard
The reasons for this are simple. Existing systems for creating a GUI are
limited in features, slow, hard to use, and/or violate system standards.
This is why you should use ClassAct. The Amiga is a graphic system and
all applications should have a graphic user interface. ClassAct is the
only system that allows you to easily create a GUI that doesn't suffer
from the deficiencies listed above.
If you want your application to be easy to use, fast and professional
looking then you NEED ClassAct.
Purchasing ClassAct:
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ClassAct is availble NOW only from Phantom Development for just $69.95 US.
Contact us now to order!
Phantom Development, LLC.
P.O. Box 572
Plantsville, CT 06479
U.S.A.
Tel/FAX: (860)276-8175
E-Mail: caldi@pcnet.com
WWW: http://www.pcnet.com/~caldi
Here is some of what is included with ClassAct:
- The complete set of ClassAct BOOPSI classes.
- Autodocs in text and AmigaGuide format telling you how to use each
class.
- classact.lib which includes SAS/C autoopen support for ClassAct classes.
- SBGen which allows you to quickly generate SpeedBar gadget source
code and image data.
- Examples programmes in C for using each of the classes.
- C includes that you will need for writing programs that use ClassAct.
- Technical support from Phantom Development.
We hope you enjoy the ClassAct demo. If you have any questions or
comments, please do not hesitate to contact us.