Introduction
Introduction
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.
If you use ReqTools in your programs you do not have to worry about requesters too much. You'll have a lot more
time to concentrate on the really important stuff your program does.
The library has been inspired by req.library (by Colin Fox & Bruce Dawson) and Commodore's own asl.library. You
will find it shares a lot of the features with these two libraries, while it has some additional ones as well. While
asl.library was great in look-and-feel I felt it lacked quite a bit in the power department. This power _is_ mostly
available in req.library, but this doesn't fit in too well with AmigaDOS Release 2. So the idea for a new requester
library was born.
I tried to make all requesters in ReqTools very powerful, easy to use and with a very nice new-look 3D
interface. Efficiency was also considered very important. The 2.0 version of the library is about 38K large. I'm
sure you will agree this is not too much considering what ReqTools offers.
ReqTools features the following requesters: a query requester, a string requester, a number requester, a file
requester, a font requester, a palette requester and new in release 2.0 of ReqTools a volume requester and a screen
mode requester.