GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts) (05/30/91)
Nico asked me to post this one. Mail any replies to me, I'll forward them to him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ives Aerts | IBM definition SY-34378 GUTEST8@BLEKUL11.BITNET | A signature consists of sequences of gutest8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be | non-blank characters separated by blanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***************************************************************** * * * reqtools.library * * * * The requester toolkit library. * * * * BETA TESTERS WANTED * * * ***************************************************************** I am developing a requester library to make it very easy for everybody to incorporate powerful and easy to use requesters without much hassle. The library currently contains a file requester, font requester, palette requester, string requester, integer requester and a notify requester. Doesn't this sound familiar I hear you say. Well, you are partly right, this is generally what req.library offers. reqtools.library is different however. It features: - a full 2.0 new look (also on 1.2/1.3) - a different library for 2.0 and 1.2/1.3 (functionally they are the same). - tries to be very powerful AND easy to use (uses tags for most functions to allow a high degree of flexibility and future expandability). - etc... If you want to be one of the lucky(?) beta testers of this library send an e-mail to GUTEST8 at cc1.kuleuven.ac.be What I would like to ask of you is to test the library naturally and give as much feedback and ideas as possible. Oh yes, you may also report bugs :-) Please include in your mail the following information: - your machine (configuration) - what program(s) you intend to test this library in. - your pledge that you will not redistribute the library package. - and describe in no more than 10 words why you think beta-testing this library is so much fun :-) A selection will be made from all the mails, people who are chosen will receive a LhArc file containing the library package. I thank you. Nico Francois ================================================================= ! ! ! Nico Francois ! ! The man with two christian names. ! ! ! =================================================================
sysop@insider.zer.sub.org (06/02/91)
> Nico asked me to post this one. Mail any replies to me, I'll forward > them to him. OK... here's one... > - your machine (configuration) - A3000/25 5MB w/quite recent Kickstarts (C= Developer), 2x 160Meg, 2024 Monitor - A1000 w/1.3KS > - what program(s) you intend to test this library in. I'm almost always writing programs, and usually use req.lib (or ASL if they are intended for 2.0 ...). > - your pledge that you will not redistribute the library > package. Understandable... ;-) > - and describe in no more than 10 words why you think > beta-testing this library is so much fun :-) Hm (1), I (2) just (3) love (4) crashes (5) ;-) > chosen will receive a LhArc file containing the library package. If you send it, please send it to my Bitnet-Account or rout it explicitely through buchonia.rhoen.sub.org (bitnet preferred) By the way, will reqtools.library be PD/Shareware, when do you expect it to be released, will distribution on 1) pd/shareware 2) commercial disks be allowed ? > I thank you. You're welcome... --- SysOp @ INSIDER -- Bugs ? Data Becker & GFA only produce FEATURES! -- Bernhard Kroenung, Bahnhofstr. 8, D-W6408 Ebersburg/Rhoen, Germany +49 6656 386 horke@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de X.400 : kronung@jlug-gw.uni-giessen.dbp.de
stevex@artech.UUCP (Steve Tibbett) (06/03/91)
In article <91149.190552GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts) writes: >Nico asked me to post this one. Mail any replies to me, I'll forward >them to him. > > I am developing a requester library to make it very easy for >everybody to incorporate powerful and easy to use requesters >without much hassle. > > The library currently contains a file requester, font >requester, palette requester, string requester, integer >requester and a notify requester. > I'm curious as to why he's bothering doing this for 2.0. Commodore has put some effort into making the asl.library for 2.0 which has a full 2.0 look, tries to be powerful.. easy to use.. has a font and file requester that are pretty good - and 2.0 makes a palette requester into a single gadtools gadget in a window. The string requester is about the only thing 2.0 doesn't provide. I would like to request that reqtools.library not be called directly, that people call the asl.library instead (for 2.0-specific apps obviously), and Nico can write an asl wedge to get his requester called, just like the kr_freq.library. This way people really do have a choice, rather than having what you consider "better" forced on them. -- ...Steve's Signature (when Steve's at work)...