Short: Tool library. Gadgets,text,converting + Author: Kenneth C. Nilsen (kenneth@norconnect.no) Uploader: Kenneth C. Nilsen (kenneth@norconnect.no) Type: util/libs dfunc.library ver. 37.14 Manual ====== dfunc.library Copyright © 1994, 1995 by Kenneth C. Nilsen/Digital Surface. All rights reserved. This library is freely distributable as long as no charges is made except from a little fee covering media expenses. This archive is allowed to be distributed with the Fred Fish collection, AmiNet, BBSes and PD libraries. Feel free to use it with your own application. I'll feel happy if you credit my work. Not allowed to be used with commercial software without a written permission. Shareware authors can also use it, but not without a deal (I am not greedy though). The library requires v37 and 68000 to run. About ===== This library is a multipurpose library. It covers aspects from low functions to functions rendering graphics, gadgets and texts. For use with interactive programs, multimedia programs, utilities and entertainment. The gadgets are powerful, fully scalable and allows customizing and images. The gadgets can start processes independed on the main program, has a mask field which is useful with interactiv application and eg. games. It has many powerful text routines, for example the DFStripText() function which stripps any type of comments. It has also text rendering routines where you can give a pointer to a normal text file and print it in the rastport centered or not, of a window or to printer directly. It will later support ansi texts. It has most function needed for making life easier. It is 100% system friendly and it's written in assembler to make speed affort and small size. It contains example sources. It is freeware! Notes ===== It contains full developer information. One note thow: The autodoc is written after the library was written. That means there might be some mistyping, wrong explinations and the C prototypes are not correctly yet. This is the first beta version of the autodoc so don't blame me yet. It's anyway useful for most programmers. I correct all this faults in a later version. Boy one get tired of an autodoc after writting 80K text... I have also used "struct gadlist *" in the C prototypes. This is not correct since the gadgetlists are not a structure. Will be corrected along with all the other C prototypes errors (wonder why I am programming assembler ;). Archive ======= This archive contains BETA version of the library. That means there may be some bugs in the library and/or bad explinations in the autodocs. Most private functions are not explained and they don't have to be. :) See the FD file file for PRIVATE functions. They may change in new releases. Explainations ============= "List of gadget structures" ( in the autodocs) This is one of the powers with this library. You can set up a list og gadget structures after each other and end the list with a -1. In this way you don't have to mess around with complicated routines to set up system gadgets. See example sources to see how this is done. Overview ======== The library is still at its beta stage. I haven't had time to test all functions, but I haven't discovered major bugs yet. Please report any kind of bugs you find via e-mail. Questions about the usage? E-mail me and I'll be happy to explain. I am trying to use the registers so they will be easy to remember. I always start with the lowest register number and uses Ax regs for pointers and Dx for flags, options and values. The regs start with 0 from left and the fd are sorted so the address registers start first. Example: Example(Buffer,Text,FileName,size,options,mask) will have this reg layout: (a0,a1,a2,d0,d1,d2) Author ====== To report any bugs, critism, questions : e-mail: kenneth@norconnect.no Digital Surface attn: Kenneth C. Nilsen Kvernhusrenen 31 N-5227 S-Neset (Norway)