abiSoftButtons -- requires libdatatypes.so !! 

This is an example of working code.  The quick way to get to the html documentation
is to run the demo and press on the "about" button and then on the "docs" button.
Try it.

ABiSoft buttons present a simple API for fully featured buttons. The freely 
distributable source code is intended to illustrate a variety of simple 
techniques to create a BeOS application with bells and whistles (or any 
digitized sound). 

AbiSoftbuttons were inspired by frustration about the absence of methods to change
the color of BButtons and by an article in the Newsletter about 
BPictureButtons.  Some ideas were inspired by Dan Heller's Motif 
Programmer's Manual, Volume 6 of the series on X Windows Programming 
from O'Reilly & Associates; the concept of offsetting the button
image on button press was inspired by the ButtonFace Library for
Motif by Harald Albrecht

The demo application also illustrates one approach to creating an about 
popup that displays scrolled text and launch a web browser. 

None of the code is presented as the best that can be written, but is offered as 
one example of coding style. Comments, bug fixes, etc., should go to 
bedev@abisoft.com. 

Further details are available in the html documentation.

(the distribution includes glue.lib and two header files from datatypes163  because 
the installation script on our machine dd not install these files in a standard place.)

Acknowledgements:  ABiSoft buttons uses the FFont class by Dianne Hackborn. 
To compress images we use code from Thumbnail by Thorsten Seitz. The list of
colors in myrgbtab.h is from the XPM distribution and is copyright Groupe Bull.  

Other than as noted in the source code,  the author of this software is abiSoft. Inc. 
Copyright (c) 1998 abiSoft. Inc.  Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this 
software for any  purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice
is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy  or modification of this
software and in all copies of the supporting  documentation for such software.

 THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
 WARRANTY.  IN PARTICULAR, THE AUTHOR DOES NOT MAKE ANY
 REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MERCHANTABILITY
 OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.