This drawer contains the developer information of xfdmaster.library v38
for AmigaE. It differs completly from the old (until 'xfd120.lha') development
material which still contained the restrictions from version 1.X of AmigaE.
The actual version is 3.3a and most limitations have been removed.

Notes:

   1. ** VERY IMPORTANT **: When using XFD from Amiga E, note that the
      function calls like "xfdDecrunch" or "xfdRecogBuffer" are now called
      "XfdDecrunch" and "XfdRecogBuffer" (with a capital "X"). This is due
      to a restriction in the E compiler - all library calls must start with
      an upper-case letter. Also note that the library base is called
      "xfdmasterbase" in E, rather than "XFDMasterBase".
      Everything else about XFD is exactly the same as in C or assembler
      (such as constants, macros and so on). If you are confused in any way,
      see the example "XfdTextView.e" source file. This should clarify
      matters.

   2. The included xfdtextview are written by DII and comes with the old
      xfd-package. I could neither find the email-address of DII nor a
      copyright notice. But I hope there are no problems with it.
      I have modified xfdtextview to work with the new xfdmaster-modules and
      added asl-support.
      Note that it still doesn't display TABs properly, but that shouldn't
      matter.
      ** IMPORTANT **: The scrollwindow-class from the AmigaE v3.3
      distribution always crashes my machine. I have included the old ones
      in EModules/class. If you have problems you should install this files.

   3. Please remember that BOTH the files called "xfdmaster.m" are necessary
      for Amiga E to use XFD, and should both be included in any E XFD
      distribution. "EModules/xfdmaster.m" contains the function pragmas,
      while "EModules/libraries/xfdmaster.m" contains all the structures and
      constants (like xfdmaster.i or xfdmaster.h).


The original text was written by DII and slightly changed by Georg Hoermann.
I reused some parts of it.


Sven Steiniger, 1998
e-Mail: ss37@inf.tu-dresden.de

