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| 31 | halyavin | 1 | AClock 1.1 |
| 2 | Copyright (c) 2002,2003 Thomas Mathys |
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| 3 | killer@vantage.ch |
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| 6 | what the hell is this ? |
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| 7 | ----------------------- |
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| 9 | this is aclock, a silly analog clock application |
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| 10 | for menuetos (http://www.menuetos.org). |
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| 13 | why do i need it ? |
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| 14 | ------------------ |
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| 16 | well, this is certainly one of the last programs on |
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| 17 | earth you'd ever need. anyway, it demonstrates how |
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| 18 | how to do certain things: |
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| 20 | - writing menuet apps that parse the command line. |
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| 21 | includes a strtok-like function that you might |
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| 22 | want to use in own projects. or maybe rather not. |
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| 23 | - writing menuet apps that are aware of the current |
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| 24 | window size and that have no problems with different |
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| 25 | skin heights. |
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| 26 | - how to write menuet apps with nasm instead of fasm |
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| 27 | (there should be a gas version aswell, don't you think ?) |
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| 28 | and how to write kick-ass code with nasm in general =) |
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| 31 | compiling instructions |
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| 32 | ---------------------- |
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| 34 | yes, it's still written for nasm. |
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| 35 | i really can't be bothered to work with fasm. |
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| 37 | oh yes, you wanted to know how to compile aclock: |
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| 39 | nasm -t -f bin -o aclock aclock.asm |
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| 41 | if you get error messages like |
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| 43 | nasm: unrecognised option `-t |
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| 44 | type `nasm -h' for help |
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| 46 | then you've got an old version of nasm. |
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| 47 | get a newer version (0.98.36 or later) from |
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| 48 | http://nasm.sourceforge.net |
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| 51 | configuration |
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| 52 | ------------- |
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| 54 | you might want to change some of the constants defined |
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| 55 | somewhere at the top of aclock.asm. the following might |
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| 56 | be useful: |
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| 58 | - DEFAULT_XPOS |
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| 59 | - DEFAULT_YPOS |
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| 60 | - DEFAULT_WIDTH |
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| 61 | - DEFAULT_HEIGHT |
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| 62 | - MIN_WIDTH |
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| 63 | - MIN_HEIGHT |
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| 65 | for more info about DEFAULT_XPOS/DEFAULT_YPOS see next |
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| 66 | section. |
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| 69 | usage |
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| 70 | ----- |
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| 72 | this version of AClock introduces command line parameters. |
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| 73 | here's an example command line: |
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| 75 | aclock w128 h128 x20 y-20 |
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| 77 | this creates a window that is 128 pixels wide and 128 pixels |
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| 78 | high (that's for the work area, without border/title bar). |
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| 79 | the window is placed at x=20, y=screen resolution-20 |
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| 80 | (because of the minus sign after the y). |
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| 82 | all parameters are optional and may appear in any order. |
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| 83 | you can't have any whitespaces in a parameter, e.g. |
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| 84 | "w 128" is an invalid parameter (which will simply be ignored). |
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| 85 | the command line parser is case sensitive. |