File: ArpCommon-19990613.zip
       Author: Angry Red Planet
      Release: 19990613 (June 13, 1999)
Compatibility: R4
     Location: contrib/libraries
  Description: Angry Red Planet Common Libraries
        Notes: This is a set of class libraries that we have
               created in the course of developing BeOS applications.
               We find them fairly useful, and are releasing them
               as open source in the hope that others will as well.

               NOTE: This package only compiles under R4; don't try
               to use it with R3 or earlier!

               The main features of ArpCommon are:

               * The ArpLayout library (Yes, Yet Another Layout Library)
                 for creating font-sensitive user  interfaces. 
               * The ArpTerminal library, which provide classes for a
                 complete terminal widget. 
               * A set of collection classes for using a templatized
                 vector container in public interfaces. 
               * An architecture for exposing "configuration" interfaces
                 of a set of objects, and automatically combining these
                 into a standard BTabView-based layout. 
               * Helper classes for managing sets of add-ons and multiple
                 search directories. 
               * The FFont class, my proposal for putting BFont objects
                 into messages. 

               The June 13, 1999 release adds the ArpTerminal and
               ArpNetwork libraries, for compiling ArpTelnet.  Other
               additions include:

               ArpConfigureFile: generic implementation for reading
                 and writing files containing  ArpConfigurableI settings.
               ArpConfigureImpl: start of standard code for implementing
                 configuration panels. 
               ArpConfigureWatch: start of standard code for implementing
                 configurable objects. 
               ArpDebug: completely redesigned. 
               ArpDocumentButton: widget for drag-and-drop interface to
                 saving and loading files. 

               For more information, see
               <URL:http://www.angryredplanet.com/beos/ARP/>.

           *** Please remove the old files:

               libraries/ArpCommon-19981208.txt
               libraries/ArpCommon-19981208.zip
               libraries/ArpCommon_970816.txt
               libraries/ArpCommon_970816.zip
               libraries/ArpTelnet-2.0alpha-x86.txt
               libraries/ArpTelnet-2.0alpha-x86.zip

               Thanks!