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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfl.tex b/Doc/lib/libfl.tex index 5af1a04..47f10c7 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libfl.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libfl.tex @@ -2,17 +2,18 @@ \bimodindex{fl} This module provides an interface to the FORMS Library by Mark -Overmars, version 2.0b. For more info about FORMS, write to -{\tt markov@cs.ruu.nl}. +Overmars. The source for the library can be retrieved by anonymous +ftp from host \samp{ftp.cs.ruu.nl}, directory \file{SGI/FORMS}. It +was last tested with version 2.0b. Most functions are literal translations of their C equivalents, -dropping the initial \samp{fl_} from their name. Constants used by the -library are defined in module \code{FL} described below. +dropping the initial \samp{fl_} from their name. Constants used by +the library are defined in module \code{FL} described below. The creation of objects is a little different in Python than in C: instead of the `current form' maintained by the library to which new FORMS objects are added, all functions that add a FORMS object to a -button are methods of the Python object representing the form. +form are methods of the Python object representing the form. Consequently, there are no Python equivalents for the C functions \code{fl_addto_form} and \code{fl_end_form}, and the equivalent of \code{fl_bgn_form} is called \code{fl.make_form}. @@ -26,13 +27,13 @@ Hopefully this isn't too confusing... There are no `free objects' in the Python interface to FORMS, nor is there an easy way to add object classes written in Python. The FORMS -interface to GL event handling is avaiable, though, so you can mix +interface to GL event handling is available, though, so you can mix FORMS with pure GL windows. \strong{Please note:} importing \code{fl} implies a call to the GL function \code{foreground()} and to the FORMS routine \code{fl_init()}. -\subsection{Functions defined in module \sectcode{fl}} +\subsection{Functions Defined in Module \sectcode{fl}} Module \code{fl} defines the following functions. For more information about what they do, see the description of the equivalent C function @@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ input string. It returns the string value as edited by the user. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{show_file_selector}{message\, directory\, pattern\, default} -Show a dialog box inm which the user can select a file. It returns +Show a dialog box in which the user can select a file. It returns the absolute filename selected by the user, or \code{None} if the user presses Cancel. \end{funcdesc} @@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ See the description in the FORMS documentation of \code{fl_color}, \code{fl_mapcolor} and \code{fl_getmcolor}. \end{funcdesc} -\subsection{Form object methods and data attributes} +\subsection{Form Objects} Form objects (returned by \code{fl.make_form()} above) have the following methods. Each method corresponds to a C function whose name @@ -382,7 +383,7 @@ documentation: \lineiii{doublebuf}{int}{nonzero if double buffering on} \end{tableiii} -\subsection{FORMS object methods and data attributes} +\subsection{FORMS Objects} Besides methods specific to particular kinds of FORMS objects, all FORMS objects also have the following methods: |