Short: ReqTools 2.6 - the requester toolkit (user) Type: util/libs Author: nico@augfl.be (Nico Francois), cmh@lls.se (Magnus Holmgren) Uploader: cmh@lls.se (Magnus Holmgren) --------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: This is the user archive. There are no includes, autodocs, glue code, catalog sources or example files included. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (1.4) and RexxReqTools (1.3): 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. ************************************************************************* RELEASE 2.6 (Library version 38.1413) Forgot to update the proto include file in 2.5. The ReqTools preferences program got wrong (localized) strings sometimes. The file requester still did not show all volumes (but the volume requester sometimes did). I also realized that this change in the volume listing code means that the VREQF_ALLDISKS flags doesn't work. A workaround would be possible (for most disks at least), but is it really worth it? Fixed a bug in the volume listing code, that could cause an incorrect device name to be added to the volume name (if the dol_Task was NULL). E-version of the demo included. The color wheel didn't have its initial color right. Seems like WHEEL_HSB doesn't work on ON_NEW... Added soft link support to the file requester. Note that hooks need to read the link themselves. Russian translation added. Updated Installer script to make use of some new features. The palette requester would try to load the color wheel, and cause Enforcer hits (or worse), when the wheel shouldn't be displayed. The screen depth gadget in the screen mode requester didn't always behave properly. Also added some safety checks. The palette requesters copy and spread gadgets didn't work properly. Made a silly mistake when adding the mode indicator in the window title. ;) The copy and spread gadgets in the palette requesters didn't work properly. Made a silly mistake when adding the mode indicator in the window title. ;) The color wheel gadget will now always render in monochrome state, to minimize the impact on the screen in question. ************************************************************************* ReqTools 2.6 - reqtools.library Copyright (c) 1991-1994 Nico François 1995-1996 Magnus Holmgren