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Menus and displays For showing instructions, hints and the like. action.h  (Version 0.8)  Adam Stark Download   For implementing action menus AltMenu.h  (Version 6)  L. Ross Raszewski Download   To create object-oriented menus boxclever.h  (Version 1.0)  Roger Firth Download   An extension of the standard 'box' statement that allows text to be bold or underlined bquote.h  (18-May-2005)  Martin Oehm Download   An extension to help printing block quoted text for letters, newspaper clippings etc. branch.h    Chris Klimas Download   A class for branching menus converse.h  (Version 2.0)  L. Ross Raszewski Download   To generate menu based conversations diary.h  (Release 1.000226)  Gunther Schmidl Download   To provide a diary and dynamically add and remove pages DMenus.zip  (Version 7)  Dave Robinson Download   A menuing system similar to menus.h, but allowing concealed or locked menu items, and (optionally) submenus that are embedded in parent menus. domenu.h  (Version 6.2)  L. Ross Raszewski Download   A replacement for Inform's standard DoMenu Footnote.h  (Version 2.0)  L. Ross Raszewski Download   To produce sequentially numbered footnotes gtoolbar.zip  (15-Nov-2002)  Simon Baldwin Download   Adds a graphical toolbar, similar to those found in many OSes such as Windows and KDE/Gnome, to the top of a Glulx Inform program. gwindows.zip  (Version 0.9b, 25-Mar-2005)  L. Ross Raszewski Download   GWindows Screen Management Framework for Glulx. Handles setup of a screen layout; provides a variety of window classes for convenient graphics handling and menus; automates refreshing and restoring the contents of windows on undo, restore, and restart. Hints.h  (Version 2)  L. Ross Raszewski Download   To produce nicely formatted hints hintsms.h  (28-Mar-2006)  Peer Schaefer Download   A hint system similar to that used by Magnetic Scrolls, which requires the user to enter codes from the game's manual to obtain the hint howtoplay.h  (24-May-2003)  Michael Coyne Download   Implements a HELP verb that displays Fredrik Ramsberg's "How to Play" instructions from his "A Beginner's Guide to Playing Interactive Fiction." If used with Menus, the library displays the instructions in a menu; otherwise, the text is displayed in the main screen. manual.h  (Version 5.0)  L. Ross Raszewski Download   To generate browsable text for Z-Machine books and built-in manuals Markup.zip  (21-Oct-2003)  Simon Baldwin Download   A HTML-like markup extension for Glulx and Z-code, allowing markup of text styles and formatting, inline pictures and hyperlinks (the latter two for Glulx only) menus.h    Graham Nelson Download   To provide easier and better menus. (This extension is the one used as an example in Chapter VII of the Designer's Manual.) notes.h  (21-Nov-2004)  Anson Turner Download   A library for implementing footnotes in a game. NovelLib.zip (home page)    Jon Ingold Download   For writing games with a "novel" mode, that is, in the style of the author's game My Angel OKBGlulx.h    Brendan Barnwell Download   A library providing object-oriented mechanisms for handling Glk windows, and also has underscore-free function aliases for some infglk functions OKBScrpt.h    Brendan Barnwell Download   To allow branching, menu-based conversations orbanner.h  (4/19/2002)  Jim Fisher Download   Extends the standard library's banner routine, adding a userdefined value to append to the bottom of the output and ORLib versioning too. orcenter.h  (4/08/2002)  Jim Fisher Download   Centers text (with wordwrap) orstylehint.h    Jim Fisher Download   An object wrapper to easily establish user-defined styles in Glulx ortextformatting.h    Jim Fisher Download   Simple file containing various useful print rules for bold, italic, and reverse-color styles; also handles printing from an array of characters ortransition.h    Jim Fisher Download   Glulx- or z-machine-compatible code to produce a pause in game output and spacing. phtalkoo.h    Adam Cadre and David Glasser Download   Menu based conversation system based on Adam Cadre's routines from the game "Photopia" plphtoo.h    Adam Cadre, David Glasser, and Alexandre Muniz Download   Menu based conversation system based on Adam Cadre's routines from Photopia (phototalk.inf), modified and object-oriented by David Glasser, and then adapted for Platypus by Alexandre Muniz. SampleTranscript.h    Emily Short Download   To print out a sample transcript like the Infocom ones. StatusLineColors.inf  (08-Feb-2003)  Jay Goemmer and Roger Firth Download   A library extension that sets the colours of the status bar according to "zones" defined in the game. Colours can be enabled or disabled by the player. trinitystat.h    Jonathan Rosebaugh Download   To give games a status line in the style of Infocom's "Trinity"

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