Michael Fabain Dirks
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62 lines
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BB Launcher V1.00
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Written by Rob Hutchinson 19/08/2001
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Requires VB Runtimes. You can get these from:
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ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/VBRUN60sp3.EXE
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BBLauncher specifically needs the MSVBVM60.DLL file. Which is the VB6 runtime dll.
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It is included with the above runtimes and resides in <SYSTEM>\System dir, (IE
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C:\Windows\System\, or C:\WINNT\System\) windows now comes with the VB runtimes
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already installed (WinME, 2K and XP), and anyone running 95/98/NT will probably
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already have installed the VB runtimes or another application might have.
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But if you want to make sure that it definately runs on the end user machine,
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just drop the MSVBVM60.DLL file in the same directory as Launcher.EXE.
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INI Files:
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There are 2 INI files (Launcher.INI and Launcher_CLEAN.INI) that come with the
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launcher and 1 that is generated when you run BBLauncher (Settings.INI).
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BBLauncher uses Launcher.INI to set itself up. And generates Settings.INI
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on exit, depending on the options the user picks (provided they enable setting
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saving which is on by default). Launcher_CLEAN.INI is just a "CLEAN" version of
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Launcher.INI which is full of comments to help you set it up (not that its hard :))
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But use Launcher_CLEAN.INI once you know what everything does. Just rename it
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to Launcher.INI.
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Programming:
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Its pretty simple to use in your own program. If you're writing a 2D program
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include "launcher2d.bb" and if you're writing a 3d program include "launcher3d.bb"
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in place of GraphicsXX x,x,x,x : Setbuffer BackBuffer().
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Basically the include will setup the screen for you, by default the screenmode
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will be 640x480x16. But you can override this during development by adding a
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command line from the blitz menu. The params are formatted: "/<OPTIONS><PARAMS>"
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This: /TYPE0 /WIDTH1024 /HEIGHT768 /BPP32 /ADDIT1
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Will open a 1024x768x32 screen in Fullscreen-Always, with the additional option
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set to true.
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The additional option param is /ADDITx, and to query it in your program just
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read the iAdditional variable, this will either be 0 or 1 depending on what
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the user selected. Don't forget you can disable the additional option in the INI
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and ignore it in code, if you like.
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Check out the example.bb program for usage.
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Well thats about it really..
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Have fun. And email me if you use it in something you wrote, I`d like to see how
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many people would actually use it. If people are interested in it then I have a
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lot of features I`d like to add that I probably wouldn`t use myself but would be
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very useful to others. But I wont add them if noone is interested in it. So email
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me if you are: loki.sd@cableinet.co.uk
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One of the planned features is a fully customisable options section, which you
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could put things like "Enable WBuffer", or well, basically anything... I didn`t
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do this originally because it would need some more components that I didn`t want
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to have to include in the distro ATM BBLauncher only uses the standard VB
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components, and it was written purposly that way.
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--
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Rob Hutchinson, loki.sd@cableinet.co.uk / 27181384
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