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Version: 2.5 By: Brian Tietz E-mail: btietz@biomail.ucsd.edu Web page: Available Release Date: Available Now	Info Last Modified: 4/5/99 Requires BeOS version: R3 PPC, R3 Intel, R4 PPC License: Freeware Cost: Source Available?: Yes
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Archive has PPC or intel libs and executables, and projects to build 
for the other platform as well.

ArrowButton: Works just like BButton, but it provides arrows with the
    standard Be appearance like what is provided with BScrollBar.
BetterScrollView: BScrollView replacement that allows you to
    specify directly the size of your data rect, and the
    BetterScrollView takes care of the scrollbar proportions and
    inactivating the scroll bars when the entire content is showing,
    and provides nice "pulling behavior" to reveal the content
    when the user is resizing the scroll view bigger.
BufferedFile: BFile-derived class to buffer file output for improved 
    efficiency and allows readable code style to still be efficient.  
    Eliminates endian-ness issue by providing automatic byte 
    swapping.  Includes a handy ReadString/WriteString pair.
Colors.h: List of const rgb_color definitions for the standard Be UI 
    colors.
ColumnListView: BListView-derived class with columns that the user 
    can resize, drag, sort, etc., with BOutlineListView-like support 
    for hierarchical lists.
DocumentApp: A document file management framework.  Provides a
    BApplication-derived class and a BWindow-derived class which
    work together to give nice document behavior, automating the
    process of quitting when the last window closes, prompting to
    save unsaved documents, etc. etc.  It saves a LOT of work
    because getting perfect behavior in a multi-document application
    can take hours of coding, testing, and recoding to get it right.
GenericTestApp.cpp: Generic test application framework for testing 
    code fragments that need a GUI.  Useful for putting together new 
    classes and also simplest-case code for reporting BeBugs(tm).
GetStringsMaxWidth: Wrapper for BFont::GetStringWidths that returns 
    the width of the widest string.
MouseWatcher: Thread to track the mouse until user releases the 
    button, even if the mouse goes outside the target BView.  There's 
    a variant that will watch the mouse and count time until twice 
    the double-click time expires then send a message signalling that 
    the user wants a popup menu (for single-button mouse support).
PlainBufferedFile: Buffers file output for increased efficiency, but
    without the extra features of BufferedFile, and more to the
    point, without sticking the extra byte on the beginning of the
    file to indicate endianness.
PrefilledBitmap: BBitmap wrapper that allows you to specify the image 
    data in the constructor.
SafeTime:  A thread safe version of localtime.  Just a stopgap until 
    Be gets around to implementing localtime_r.
ScrollViewCorner: A BView for filling the corner of a BScrollView
    that's not seated in the lower-right corner of a 
    B_DOCUMENT_WINDOW.
TabView: Useful if you want to link against PR1 for a wider audience.  
    Also, the BTabView implementation is shit for resizable windows 
    and chokes on hidden child views, TabView handles both cases 
    properly.  Funny aside:  I wrote TabView as a stopgap measure 
    while I was waiting for R3, planning to switch to BTabView in my 
    Scheduler program project once I got R3.  But as soon as I 
    switched to BTabView I found the implementation so bad that I 
    switched back to using my own TabView.
WindowPositionSet: A class to make sure that windows are actually 
    visible onscreen when they're created, and to manage the 
    locations of newly created windows to space new windows so that 
    each new window doesn't sit on top of the last one.  Gives nice 
    behavior and is easy to use.
WrappingTextView:  A BTextView derived class that automates the
    process of rewrapping the text when the view is resized.  Also 
    provides a mechanism for storing the text view contents when
    appropriate, which is useful if the view is of an object that can
    exist without the view, so that this more persistent object can be 
    kept up-to-date when the text is modified.

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