Subroutine Library (v16.0)

The Winteracter library contains several hundred Fortran callable routines, covering a wide range of GUI functionality:

Windows

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  • Create a root window and multiple child windows
  • Hide root window for dialog-based applications
  • Combine windows/menus/toolbars/dialogs
  • Sub-divided status bars easily added
  • Windows can be fixed in size
  • Redirect output text/graphics to any window
  • Scroll, raise, retitle, clear, reposition, resize windows
  • Split a window into sub-windows
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Text Editor

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  • Edit text in resizable window with scroll bars
  • Font type/size selection
  • Customisable menu
  • Load/save text files of virtually any size
  • Put/get text from character variables
  • Optional command line allowing simulation of `teletype' i/o
  • Optional command line history
  • Edit multiple buffers in one window
  • Undo buffer, size configureable
  • Set/goto bookmark
  • RTF (Rich Text Format) support under Windows
  • Paragraph and character level style control, in RTF editor windows
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Messages (events)

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  • Minimal set of message (event) types which need to be processed, including:
    • Mouse button up/down, double-click or scroll
    • Mouse moved
    • Key pressed
    • Push button pressed
    • Menu item selected
    • Window exposed or resized
    • Window close request
    • Dialog field changed
    • Tab changed in tabbed dialog
    • Timer expired
    • Command entered in an editor window command line
    • Right-click on button, list box, treeview, status bar or grid label
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Menus

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  • Add/change/remove text menu on any root or child window
  • Add/change/remove toolbar button menu on any root or child window
  • Up to 4 toolbars on each window
  • Floating (vertical popup) menus
  • Set/get menu item state (checked and/or enabled)
  • Add/change/delete individual menu items
  • Set status-bar prompt for each item
  • Set toolbar button tooltip strings/durations.
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Dialogs

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  • Access to various types of dialog controls:
    • Single-line string, integer, real & double precision fields
    • Multi-line string fields
    • Combo boxes and list boxes
    • Push buttons
    • Check boxes and radio buttons
    • Progress bars
    • Track bars
    • Treeviews
    • Spinners on numeric fields
    • Tabbed dialogs ('property sheets')
    • Images
    • Grid controls
  • Set field state (enabled/disabled/read-only/hidden)
  • Field colour control
  • Range checks on numeric fields
  • Modal, modeless and semi-modeless dialogs (latter eliminate need for dialog callback routines)
  • Resize dialogs
  • Set dialog field tooltip strings/durations.
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Grids

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  • Powerful spreadsheet-like grid controls can be displayed in a dialog or a resizable window:
  • String, integer, real, double precision, check box, radio button, push button and combo box column types
  • Get/put data at column or cell level
  • Cell/column/row colour control
  • Read-only columns/cells
  • Update row/column labels
  • Insert/delete rows
  • Save/load grid contents to/from CSV files
  • Save grid contents as HTML page
  • Sort, search and print
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Common Dialogs

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  • File selector
  • Directory selector
  • Colour selectors
  • Message box
  • Printing dialogs
  • Calendar
  • Marker selector
  • HTML/PDF viewer selector (Linux)
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Operating System

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  • Command line arguments
  • Directory manipulation (create, change, delete, get name, list, file size/date information, check existence, count files)
  • Copy, rename and delete files
  • Execute/check/kill external commands/programs
  • Get/set environment variables
  • Get/create/set/delete values in the Windows registry
  • Get/set file attributes
  • Get filetype/program association
  • Basic inter-process communication (read from std output or write to std input)
  • Platform/compiler independent binary file handling (`stream i/o')
  • Find a file in a sub-directory tree
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General Functions

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  • Access Windows Help, CHTML or HTML files at file or topic level
  • Send email
  • Mouse cursor manipulation
  • Play sound and movie files
  • Zlib compression
  • Quick sort
  • Save arrays as HTML tables or CSV files
  • RGB/CMY/HLS colour conversion
  • Debugging diagnostics
  • String manipulation
  • Array/function max/min calculation
  • Regional decimal point support
  • Date/time manipulation
  • Preference file handling
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Graphics Primitives

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  • Lines, polylines, curves
  • Polygons (can contain `holes')
  • Circles, ellipses and arcs
  • Arrows
  • Markers
  • Single points
  • Bit-block move/copy
  • Read pixel values
  • Solid, mixed colour, graduated, hatched area fills
  • Colour selection (8-bit palette or 24 bit RGB models)
  • Line width/join/cap control
  • Broken lines (8 types)
  • Plot mode selection (overwrite/and/or/exclusive-or)
  • Select target drawable (window, memory bitmap or dialog field)
  • Clipping rectangle
  • Device independent user-defined co-ordinate system
  • Rotatable co-ordinate system
  • Proximity checking (e.g. Is a point in a given polygon?)
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Graphics Text

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  • Software based vector and outline fonts (100% portable)
  • Hardware fonts (Courier, Times, Helvetica/Arial, Symbol)
  • Any TrueType font in GDI output
  • Monospaced or proportional spacing
  • Rotated text
  • Left/centre/right justification
  • Width/height control
  • Bold, italics, underlined
  • Opaque or transparent
  • Write strings or numbers
  • Formatted text blocks
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Graphics Hardcopy/Export

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  • Create graphics via drawing calls in these formats:
    • Microsoft Windows Print Manager (Windows versions only)
    • Microsoft Windows standard/Aldusenhanced metafiles (Windows versions only)
    • PostScript (printer and EPS files)
    • HP-GL/2 (for mono/colour LaserJets and high end DeskJets)
    • HP-GL (pen plotters)
    • HP PCL (mono/colour to 600 dpi)
    • Epson ESC/P and ESC/P2 (mono/colour to 720 dpi)
    • CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
    • SVG (Scalabale Vector Graphics, for web browsers)
    • BMP/PCX/PNG bit images (2/16/256/16M colours) and JPEG/JFIF images (16M colours)
    • AutoCAD DXF
  • Print text files in any of the above formats
  • Save raw bit image data arrays in BMP/PCX/PNG/JPEG/ICO/CUR format
  • Save a window, dialog or bitmap in BMP/PCX/PNG/JPEG format
  • Dump a window, memory bitmap or dialog field as a printer bit image
  • Control over various hardcopy options (image size, position, orientation, copies and many more)
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Graphics Import

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  • Load BMP/PCX/PNG/JPEG bit images to a current drawable (window/memory bitmap/dialog field) Load icon files (PNG/ICO/CUR) to current drawable, allowing for transparency
  • Load BMP/PCX/PNG/JPEG/ICO/CUR bit images to a data array
  • Replay CGM, HP-GL or HP-GL/2 to a window, memory bitmap or dialog. Also WMF or EMF under Windows.
  • Zoom option when importing WMF, EMF, CGM, HP-GL or HP-GL/2.
  • Replay multi-page vector graphics files. Select page(s) to replay.
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Graphics Input

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  • Stretch/drag graphical objects
  • Control mouse cursor position and shape
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Presentation Graphics

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  • Bar charts
  • Histograms
  • High/low plots
  • Pie charts
  • 2D and 3D scatter plots
  • 2D and 3D line plots
  • 2D and 3D function plots
  • 2D line-based contour plots
  • 2D fill-based contour plots
  • 3D surface plots (carpet, stepped and high-low styles)
  • 3D volume plots
  • 2D contour plots can be projected into a Z plane of a 3D plot for "combined" 2D/3D plots
  • Vector plots
  • Tables of numeric data
  • Column plots
  • Error bars
  • Cartesian or Polar co-ordinates
  • Log/linear scaling
  • Axes, graticule, key, scale and label plotting
  • Automatic or user defined scaling
  • Missing data indicator
  • (x,y,z)/(x,y,z,v) to grid data filters
  • 2D and 3D primitives allowing plot customisation
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Memory Bitmaps

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  • Create/destroy memory bitmaps
  • Memory bitmaps selectable as target graphics drawable
  • Copy images between bitmaps, windows and dialog fields
  • Get bitmap from program resource
  • Display memory bitmaps in automatically managed viewer windows with scroll bars
  • Copy raw colour data to/from memory bitmaps
  • Load/save bitmaps from/to disk
  • Mirror/rotate/resize bitmaps
  • Copy bitmaps to Windows clipboard
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Memory Icons

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  • Create/destroy/clear/mirror memory icons
  • Copy raw colour/transparency data to/from memory icons
  • Load/save PNG or ICO icon files to/from memory icons
  • Get icon from program resource
  • Display memory icon in current drawable
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Memory Metafiles

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  • Create/destroy memory metafile in EMF or CGM format (CGM on all platforms. EMF is Windows only)
  • Memory metafiles selectable as target graphics drawable
  • Load/save metafiles from/to disk
  • Play back memory metafiles
  • Copy EMF metafiles to Windows clipboard
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Image Data

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  • Transfer colour image data directly to/from current graphics drawable.
  • Blend colour image data with current target graphics drawable. Supports 8-bit transparency.
  • Save colour image data to BMP, PNG, JPEG, ICO or PCX (PNG and ICO can be saved in RGBA format)
  • Mirror colour data.
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3D Modelling

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  • Model creation
  • Model view control
  • Modelview matrix manipulation
  • Manage parts within a model
  • Save/load 3D model files
  • 3D text
  • Facet/part picking
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ODBC Database Interaction

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  • Get/put string and numeric data from/to ODBC data sources
  • Interrogate available sources, tables and columns
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OpenGL Support

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  • Text routines (Vector fonts on all platforms, True Type fonts under Windows)
  • Drawable selection (window, memory bitmap or dialog field)
  • Front/back buffer selection
  • Print current OpenGL drawable (bit image dump)
  • Save current OpenGL drawable as a BMP, PNG, PCX or JPEG file
  • Copy pixel data from current OpenGL drawable
  • 8-bit colour mode palette control (Windows only)
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Clipboard Access

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  • Put string, bitmap or metafile on the clipboard
  • Retrieve string, bitmap or metafile from the clipboard
  • Put raw colour data on clipboard as a bitmap
  • Retrieve bitmap from clipboard as raw colour data
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Information Functions

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  • Extensive set of information functions to interrogate state of various library and system parameters, including:
    • 3D modelling
    • Clipboard
    • Database table
    • Device names, including host computer name
    • Dialogs
    • Drawable
    • Editor windows
    • Errors codes and descriptions
    • Filenames
    • Graphics primitives
    • Grid fields/windows
    • Memory bitmaps/icons/metafiles
    • Operating system
    • Presentation graphics
    • Screen size/colours
    • Windows
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Obsolete Routines

Various routines are included which provide backwards compatibility with earlier releases. Mostly, these are routines which have been replaced by superior alternatives in more recent releases.

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