Short: ReqTools 2.2 - the requester toolkit
Type: util/libs
Uploader: we45030@is1.vub.ac.be (Wim Peeters)
Author: nico@augfl.be (Nico Francois)

reqtools.library is a standard Amiga shared, runtime library.  The purpose
of ReqTools is to make it a lot quicker and easier to build standard
requesters into your programs.  ReqTools is designed with Commodore's style
guidelines in mind, all requesters have the look-and-feel of AmigaDOS
Release 2.

ReqTools features the following requesters: a query requester, a string
requester, a number requester, a file requester, a font requester, a
palette requester, a volume requester and a screenmode requester.

Also included are RTPatch (1.3) and RexxReqTools (1.2e):

RTPatch is a small program that will re-route functions from most popular
requester libraries to ReqTools.  Libraries currently supported are Arp,
Req and Asl.  RTPatch will also patch some functions in Intuition to give
you improved system requesters.

RexxReqTools gives ARexx users easy access to a large family of requesters.
All requesters are easy to use; they require one or no arguments.  But the
requesters also have a lot of power through several optional arguments and
through tagstrings.  RexxReqTools itself doesn't implement any of these
requesters, it is a link between ARexx and ReqTools.

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  RELEASE 2.2 (Library version 38.390 [1.3] - 38.1194 [2.0])

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  NOTE: All changes listed below are for the Kickstart 2.0 and higher
        version of the library (unless stated otherwise).  Development of
        the 1.3 compatible version of ReqTools has more or less stopped.
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  File, font and screenmode are now able to use proportional fonts, making
    them truly font-sensitive.  Palette requester will accept and use a
    proportional font on Kickstart 3.0 or higher only.  Note: this
    required a small catalog change, so be sure to update your catalogs.
  Added cool LED indicator left of the drawer gadget in the file requester.
  File requester will now make sure 'freq->Dir' and 'filename' are
    up-to-date when a callback hook is called (RTFI_FilterFunc and
    RT_IntuiMsgFunc).  If you want to rely on this please check for
    this _exact_ release of ReqTools (or higher of course).
  File requester will show file sizes in localized form now.
  Screenmode requester now handles color depths greater than 8192 colors
    correctly (will use 16K, 32K, 16M,... for high color values).
    Previously the window borders could get overwritten, oops :-)
  Removed hardcoded monitor names from screenmode requester code and made
    screenmode requester construct the name for an unnamed mode from the
    monitor name and dimensions.
  Bug fix: when the SCREQF_GUIMODES flag is used the screenmode requester
    will no longer show modes that haven't got the DIPF_IS_WB flag set.
    This fixes the problem of truecolor Picasso II modes showing up.
  Added a temporary workaround for a SAS/C bug (6.50 and earlier) creating
    incorrect code for taglist switches.  Programs with a missing TAG_END
    in one of their taglists will no longer crash (but are still buggy ;-)
  Changed rtLockWindow() and rtUnlockWindow() nesting code.  Should work
    much better now and allow for infinite nesting.
  Improved calculation of spacing value in rtGetVScreenSize(), will now
    properly return a spacing of 4 for A2024 monitor for example.
  Release 1.2d of RexxReqTools included.
  Version 2.2 of ReqTools preference editor included.
  Version 1.3 of RTPatch included.

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  RTPatch Release 1.3

  o ASL Intuition message callback function/hook (FRF_DOMSGFUNC and
    ASLFR_IntuiMsgFunc tags) seems to require filtered Intuition messages
    (GadTools) instead of normal IntuiMessages.  RTPatch now uses
    GT_FilterIMsg() and GT_PostFilterIMsg() in its message callback hook
    emulation to support this strange requirement.  On top of this some
    software (e.g. PhotoWorX) seems to rely on the fr_Drawer and fr_File
    fields to be valid and up-to-date during the execution of the hook.
    In combination with ReqTools 2.2 this will now be the case.
  o New argument: 'IGNOREHEIGHT'.  When this is switch is used RTPatch
    will ignore the height setting for the Asl file requester and will
    always use the default ReqTools setting (as set by the ReqTools
    preferences program).
  o In case of a multiselect ASL requester RTPatch will always fill in
    the fr_File field with the name of the first file that was selected.
    This is not really required, but improves compatibility with Term.
  o Set mp_SigTask of dummy message port to NULL and mp_Flags to PA_IGNORE.
    This is done to avoid all sorts of problems with some system snoopers.

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ReqTools 2.2 - reqtools.library
Copyright (c) 1991-1994 Nico François