API Release 2 Application Interface

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  Reserved. Neither icons, binaries nor code may be reused/reproduced without
  written permission of the author.

  Dietmar Eilert
  Mies-v-d-Rohe-Str.31, 52074 Aachen, Germany
  E-Mail: DIETMAR@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE
  Tel: +49-(0)241-81665
       +49-(0)2525-7776
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BASICS

  GoldED offers a fast interface to connect to external applications: the API
  interface.  The  API  interface  may  be  used by third party developers to
  connect  their  applications  with  API  aware  hosts  like  GoldED:  after
  registration  clients  recieve  notify  messages from the host application.
  Depending on these messages they can take approbiate  actions  (e.g.  close
  their  windows  if  the host is about to close a screen, indicating this by
  sending API_ACTION_HIDE messages to all registered clients). ARexx  usually
  is  used to control applications. The API interface is used by applications
  to control clients.

HOW TO RUN CLIENTS

  Clients are automatically launched by GoldED depending on  the  file  types
  currently  used.  Clients  are  libraries.  They  provide  a  fixed  set of
  functions called by the editor. Several example  API  clients  are  shipped
  with  GoldED;  please have a look at the provided source code to understand
  the basic meachanisms. Old message-based API clients released for GoldED  3
  or earlier versions of GoldED are not supported by this release of GoldED -
  you will have to install API Release 2 aware updates made for GoldED 4.