AClock 1.1
Copyright (c) 2002,2003 Thomas Mathys
killer@vantage.ch
what the hell is this ?
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this is aclock, a silly analog clock application
for menuetos (http://www.menuetos.org).
why do i need it ?
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well, this is certainly one of the last programs on
earth you'd ever need. anyway, it demonstrates how
how to do certain things:
- writing menuet apps that parse the command line.
includes a strtok-like function that you might
want to use in own projects. or maybe rather not.
- writing menuet apps that are aware of the current
window size and that have no problems with different
skin heights.
- how to write menuet apps with nasm instead of fasm
(there should be a gas version aswell, don't you think ?)
and how to write kick-ass code with nasm in general =)
compiling instructions
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yes, it's still written for nasm.
i really can't be bothered to work with fasm.
oh yes, you wanted to know how to compile aclock:
nasm -t -f bin -o aclock aclock.asm
if you get error messages like
nasm: unrecognised option `-t
type `nasm -h' for help
then you've got an old version of nasm.
get a newer version (0.98.36 or later) from
http://nasm.sourceforge.net
configuration
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you might want to change some of the constants defined
somewhere at the top of aclock.asm. the following might
be useful:
- DEFAULT_XPOS
- DEFAULT_YPOS
- DEFAULT_WIDTH
- DEFAULT_HEIGHT
- MIN_WIDTH
- MIN_HEIGHT
for more info about DEFAULT_XPOS/DEFAULT_YPOS see next
section.
usage
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this version of AClock introduces command line parameters.
here's an example command line:
aclock w128 h128 x20 y-20
this creates a window that is 128 pixels wide and 128 pixels
high (that's for the work area, without border/title bar).
the window is placed at x=20, y=screen resolution-20
(because of the minus sign after the y).
all parameters are optional and may appear in any order.
you can't have any whitespaces in a parameter, e.g.
"w 128" is an invalid parameter (which will simply be ignored).
the command line parser is case sensitive.
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