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Official release of version 1.22, Jan '90


Req.library  is Copyright ©1989, 1990 by C.W.  Fox and Bruce Dawson.  It is
freely  distributable.  No charge may be made for it's distribution, except
for a nominal media fee.

     Feel free to distribute and use this library with your programs, along
with a notice that the library is 'FreeWare'.

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    Hello! This is the introduction to the all-new "req.library"!

    What is it?

    Req.library  adds  user-friendliness  to  the  Amiga's  user interface.
While  all  that  intuition  offers the programmer is a boring, inflexible,
slow,   painful   requester,   req.library   allows  fast  &  user-friendly
requesters.   Notice  I said 'requesters', as they include a text requester
(who's  size  is  automatically  figured  from  the body of text within), a
colour  requester  (intelligent  enough  to  correctly  size  it's  palette
according  to  the  depth  of the screen), string and int requesters, and a
file  requester!!!  Not to mention numerous gadget creation routines, and a
real-time scroll routine.

    The  nice thing about the gadget creation routines, is that they create
fully  re-entrant  gadgets,  so  if you wish to run a routine over and over
(for,  say, a multi-window program), you may feel free.  All you do is pass
a  buffer  (the  sizes required are defined in reqbase.i and reqbase.h) and
they will fill it in.

    (Please see req.doc for a more comprehensive explanation).

  Here is an overview of the files included in this ZOO archive:

    reqreadme             This file.
    areqglue.o            Gluecode for aztec C. Link with your C code.
    lreqglue.o            Gluecode for Lattice C. Link with your C code.
    reqglue.asm           Sourcecode for the gluecode.
    customizefile.asm     How to customize the file requester.
    customizefile         The executable of the file requester customizer.
    reqbase.h             The C include file. Put it in include/libraries
    reqbase.i             The asm include file. Put it in include/libraries
    showoffreq.c          The C source code for the req demo program.
    showoffreq            The req demo executable.
    req.library           The actual library. This goes in libs:
    reqproto.h            The prototype file for Lattice C
    req.doc               The instructions and calling conventions.
    macros.i              Some handy macros.

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    Included  is  a  demo  program called Showoffreq, which opens a screen
with  text  gadgets in it, one per requester, and lets you try out many of
the  requesters.   You  can look at the source code for examples of how to
call  the  different  requesters.   If  you  wish  to  experiment with the
requesters, this might be a good place to start.


To compile showoffreq.c under Lattice, use:

               lc -Lcd+lib:lreqglue.o showoffreq




To compile showoffreq.c under Aztec, use:

               cc showoffreq -oo/showoffreq.o

               ln -w +Q -o showoffreq o/showoffreq.o lib:areqglue.o -lc

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                               For Assembly

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    To  use  req.library  from  assembly  language  is quite easy.  So far,
nothing's been said about it, so here is some info.

    First  of  all,  the library is EXACTLY like system libraries; you open
it, call functions, and then close it.  We've included some macros that may
make working with it a bit easier.  All you have to include to actually use
the req.library is reqbase.i.  This contains all the function offsets.  You
may  wish  to call the functions directly, or use a bit of gluecode to make
things even easier.  If you wish to do it all yourself, then all you've got
to  do  is  include  reqbase.i.   If you wish to use some pre-made function
setup, then you have to link with the appropriate reqglue.o (lreqglue.o for
Lattice, and areqglue.o for Aztec).





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  To link with lreqglue.o (for Lattice), an example linkfile might look like
this:

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FROM
lib:startup.o
obj/file1.o
obj/file2.o
obj/data.o
obj/menus.o
lib:lreqglue.o

LIB
lib:amiga.lib

TO
file

nodebug smallcode smalldata

BATCH

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and to use this linkfile, just say:

    blink with <linkfile>




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To link with areqglue.o (for Aztec), an example linkfile might look like this:



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ln -w +Q -o file1 o/file1.o lib:areqglue.o -lc

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and to use this linkfile, just say:

    ln -f <linkfile>