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    We would like Glass to be the *BEST* user interface
  design program available.  In order to do this, we need
 *your* comments and suggestions for new features.  Please
  send any requests, comments or anything else about this
 program to Straylight at the address given at the bottom
                       of this file.
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                      Program credits

Glass's executable `!RunImage' contains code from the
following sources:

  * Compiled Glass source code, written by Straylight
  * SharedCLibrary stubs, written by Straylight
  * Steel DLL stubs, generated by Straylight's DLL system
  * Anything else link threw in, by ARM ltd and Acorn

Most of the Glass code was compiled using Acorn ANSI C. The
rest was assembled using Acorn ARM AOF Macro Assembler
(objasm), or autogenerated using Straylight AOF producing
tools.

Glass application icon drawn in Paint by Straylight (but
thanks to Mike Geller for the old one).  Other graphics by
Straylight, with the aid of the following software:

  Paint by Acorn Computers Limited
  Snippet by 4Mation
  ArtWorks by Computer Concepts Limited
  ChangeFSI by Acorn Computers Limited

Glass window templates designed by Straylight using
WindowEd by Armen Software for the original set, and using
Glass enough of it had been completed.

Also included in the Glass distribution are:

  * Interface, by Simon Huntingdon
  * WimpExtension, by Jon Ribbens of DoggySoft
  * DLLManager module and other parts of the Straylight
    Dynamic Linking System, by Straylight
  * The `Steel' library, by Straylight
  * Scuptrix, by Straylight

With grateful thanks.

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                      Special thanks

Thanks to Dom Symes, for Zap, which I used for all of the
Glass source, and large chunks of Steel.

Thanks to Gary Partis at Morley, for getting my SCSI system
going.

Thanks also to Jon Ribbens (of DoggySoft) for some very
constructive comments during test stage 1.  The orange
buttons are done specially for you (in Zap :-) ).  Oh, and
also for the lift down to Acorn World.

Thanks to Steve Haeck for the lift back :-).

Thanks to all them at Armen Software.  They know who they
are, and why.

Thanks to all of the rest of the test team, both offical
and unofficial.

Finally, I'd like to thank Acorn Computers Limited, not
only for all the software given in the list above, but also
for their operating system, and the hardware than runs it.
It sometimes feels like a losing battle trying to make
RISC OS do clever things, but there's always a way, and
it's always worth it in the end.
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                     Revision history

Version    Date         Event

1.00                    Finished initial version.  Time to
			fix the bugs :-(
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                  Things to beware of

There's a tiny problem with Simon Huntingdon's Interface
module which you should be aware of.  If you have an icon
which contains anti-aliased fonts and a validation string
which contains instructions to change the background colour
when the icon is clicked, Interface can become confused and
mangle the font data in the mistaken belief that it's icon
colours.  I've worked around this by forcing the font
information back into the icon, but while it's pressed in,
the icon may appear strange (maybe the text will disappear,
or be in a completely different font).  Be warned.  There's
not an awful lot I can do about this.

WimpExtension doesn't have this problem (which is lucky,
because it would be much more difficult to work around).

Beware of using the Toolbox on windows that start drags
when you click on them -- they can leave the drags
incomplete, and the application gets very confused, usually
terminally.  I could try sending them a User_Drag_Box
event, but I'm not sure that won't just cause more
problems.  Grab icon used to have this problem too, but
I've stopped using Wimp_DragBox for that now.

I may consider restricting the Toolbox to Glass's own
windows.  This feature, while not making any strictly
illegal calls, still does somewhat strange things, and
applications which aren't built to stand them will behave
in ways which are unfortunately far too predicatable.

There appears to be a problem in some versions of the
WindowManager which causes an Address exception when you
have an icon which is both anti-aliased and word-wrapped.
The work-around for this is fairly simple: don't have these
sorts of icons.  This is the first Wimp bug I haven't
managed to bodge my way around somehow.
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