Short: 050207 Powerful Object-oriented System & GUI
Uploader: gofromiel@gofromiel.com
Author: Olivier LAVIALE - http://www.gofromiel.com/feelin/
Type: dev/gui

   After an Intuition comes a Feelin.

-- FEELIN -------------------------------------------------------------------

   Feelin is the most powerful object-oriented system (OOS)  available  for
   the  AmigaOS.  It provides two things : A small shared library, fast and
   powerful (the  object-system's  core),  offering  everything  needed  to
   create  a  complete  object-oriented  environnement  ; And an extensible
   system to create and maintain GUIs.

   My goal, creating Feelin, was to offer a free, easy to use,  modern  and
   secure  OOS  that  can  evolves on its own. Methods, attributes and even
   attributes'   values   are   defined   as   plain   strings.   Numerical
   representation  are  allocated  on  the fly as classes are loaded. Thus,
   anybody can add features (classes) to Feelin without  asking  me  for  a
   registration number of something like that. All classes are external and
   can be easily replaced by anybody. Ony ver low-level classes  are  built
   into the library.

   Although Feelin comes with a lof of GUI oriented classes, Feelin is  not
   limited  to that, and can be used for a variety of projects. Nothing, in
   Feelin, is static.


-- EXAMPLES -----------------------------------------------------------------

   Examples are  written  in  C,  E  and  XML  (since  Feelin  support  XML
   applications).  Executables  are also supplied. Examples are mainly used
   for testing. But there are also some tutorials on how  to  write  custom
   classes and so.

   Although Feelin can be used with a  variety  of  programming  languages,
   only  support  for  AmigaE,  SAS/C,  StormC,  GCC  and vbcc are included
   directly in this package. If you have released a Feelin support  package
   for a new language or development system, please contact me.


-- HISTORY ------------------------------------------------------------------

   CHANGES SINCE RELEASE 041218 - SHORT -------------------------------------

      IDCMP flag are now deprecated, Feelin now comes  with  its  very  own
      event system.
      
      DnD has been partially rewritten, especially the graphic part.
      
      Feelin in now open-source !


   CHANGES SINCE RELEASE 041218 - COMPLETE ----------------------------------

   --- Application (10.00) --------------------------------------------------

   Added     preference     resolving     mapping.     With     the     new
   FA_Application_ResolveMapping  attribute,  the  developer can now easily
   override any user preference item. This  was  a  problem  with  previous
   version   because  some  preference  items  cannot  be  overridden  e.g.
   "FP_Decorator_AScheme". It's so easy now, it's nearly ridiculous :-)

   Own event system, IDCMP is deprecated. Icon drop support.


   -- AppServer (04.00) -----------------------------------------------------

   DnD handling rewritten completely (again). Instead of reading  intuition
   messages  on  the  AppServer  thread, I add a FEventHandler, with a very
   high priority, to the window where the DnD begins. Thus I  use  the  new
   event system and receive them through the FM_HandleEvent method.

   Bob routines have been rewritten too. Because  I  was  replacing  screen
   GelsInfo, after a DnD icons operations crashed the system. This is fixed
   now, hopefully :-)


   -- Area (07.00) ----------------------------------------------------------

   Remove a  stupid  bug  :  control  char  did  not  work  correctly  with
   FV_InputMode_Toggle.

   New event system support


   -- Prop (04.00) ----------------------------------------------------------

   Added color scheme support. Added new events support.


   -- TextDisplay (04.01) ---------------------------------------------------

   Remove a stupid bug in FM_Draw : The shortcut line wasn't drawn because
   'adjust.font' was NULL if the text did not requires new adjustement.


   -- Thread (01.10) --------------------------------------------------------

   The priority of the process can now be set / get. The thread process can
   be obtained with the FA_Thread_Process attribute.


   -- XMLApplication (01.10) ------------------------------------------------

   Improved object collection management. F_MakeObj() is now used  as  much
   as possible.


-- LAST WORDS ---------------------------------------------------------------

   This was big work for me little programmer. I hope you'll like  it  and
   wanna join me. I hope some comments. Thanks again and never forget :

                Don't be tempted by the shinny appel
                  Don't you eat of a bitter fruit
                  Hunger only for a word of justice
                  Hunger only for a word of truth
                'Cause all that you have is your sool