ABOUT

Readargsgroup.mcc is used by AmigaMesaRTL's prefs program and Mesa.mcc
class. You can use it for free if you find it useful.
The entire GUI is described by a single ReadArgs template line so it's
the most compact representation in the world... Some special argument
names can change GUI element's appearance, eg. "Name" is ordinary
string argument, but "_FN_Filename" would have a filename popup
because of "_FN_" prefix.

See developer documentation for full list of enhancements.


  INSTALLATION

Copy Readargsgroup.mcc from 'libs' to your MUI:libs/mui directory.
You can also copy demos/ReadArgsGUI to one of your path locations
if you are going to use it in scripts.


  THE DEMO

Supplied ReadArgsGUI is a very simple example of the MUI application
using Readargsgroup. It builds a GUI, based on the supplied template.
After the user fills in the fields and clicks on 'OK', the arguments
string (ReadArgs compatible, of course) is returned to the standard
output. 'Cancel' is indicated by return value of 5 (can be easily
checked by IF WARN or FAILAT 5).
It could be useful in scripts for getting user input. You can even do:
(under v39 only)

Format `ReadArgsGUI
DEVICE=DRIVE/K/A,NAME/K/A,OFS/S,FFS/S,INTL=INTERNATIONAL/S,NOINTL=NOINTERNATIONA
L/S,DIRCACHE/S,NODIRCACHE/S,NOICONS/S,QUICK/S`

Consequent parameters are parsed with ReadArgs and put into the GUI.
For example:
ReadArgsGUI Your_Name,Age/N John 22

...so you can supply the default values (or preserve the previous ones).

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[generic]                  234     620  37.7% -lh5- c81a Sep 13  1998 Readargsgroup/demos.info
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[generic]                  230     476  48.3% -lh5- 10a8 Oct 23  1998 Readargsgroup/demos/ComplexGUI.info
[generic]                 4675    8252  56.7% -lh5- 5734 Oct 23  1998 Readargsgroup/demos/ReadArgsGUI
[generic]                  137     176  77.8% -lh5- 8c09 Oct 23  1998 Readargsgroup/demos/showuserinfo
[generic]                  215     301  71.4% -lh5- 7145 Oct 23  1998 Readargsgroup/demos/SimpleGUI
[generic]                  248     496  50.0% -lh5- 3524 Oct 23  1998 Readargsgroup/demos/SimpleGUI.info
[generic]                 1128    2418  46.7% -lh5- 2fee Sep 13  1998 Readargsgroup/Developer/AutoDocs/MCC_Readargsgroup.doc
[generic]                 1176    2723  43.2% -lh5- 3f95 Oct 23  1998 Readargsgroup/Developer/C/examples/ReadArgsGUI.c
[generic]                  170     325  52.3% -lh5- 25ab Sep  9  1998 Readargsgroup/Developer/C/include/Readargsgroup_mcc.h
[generic]                  238     620  38.4% -lh5- e085 Sep 13  1998 Readargsgroup/libs.info
[generic]                 5703    9364  60.9% -lh5- e455 Sep 13  1998 Readargsgroup/libs/Readargsgroup.mcc
[generic]                  936    1659  56.4% -lh5- c730 Oct 23  1998 Readargsgroup/README
[generic]                  307     831  36.9% -lh5- a2d3 Sep 13  1998 Readargsgroup/README.info
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