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Classes

• Accelerator The accelerator widget.
• Animator Provides basic animation functionality for the GUI.
• Bitmap A wrapper for the Allegro BITMAP structure.
• BoxShadow The shadow box widget
• Button Button is a simple widget that implements the functionality of several types of buttons.
• CFPS A simple helper class that measures the frame rate of a MASkinG program.
• CheckBox A check box is almost identical in functionality to a toggle button except that it draws itself differently.
• ClearScreen ClearScreen is a very simple widget whose sole purpose is to clear the canvas to a certain colour
• Clipboard Wrapper for the platform specific clipboard.
• Color Represents an Allegro color.
• ColorSelect The standard color selector dialog.
• ComboBox The ComboBox widget.
• CompoundWidget An intermediate virtual class for making compound widgets.
• Cursor Represents an animated mouse cursor with a Windows XP style shadow
• DRS The Dirty Rectangle Syste (DRS) screen update driver.
• Dialog The dialog manager class.
• DoubleBuffer The Double Buffering screen update driver.
• EditBox An EditBox is like a label except that the text can be edited.
• Error Represents an error code functions can return and you can check.
• FPS A simple widget that displays the current redraw frame rate.
• FileSelect The standard fileselector dialog.
• Font Class for handling fonts.
• GLDialog A simple dialog with an OpenGL context.
• GLDriver Simple OpenGL/AllegroGL driver.
• GLDriverDRS Simple OpenGL/AllegroGL driver for use with DRS.
• GLDriverDoubleBuffer Simple software double buffered OpenGL/AllegroGL driver.
• GLViewport A simple OpenGL viewport widget.
• GroupBox Similar to a Panel except that it can also have a title
• HyperText A HyperText is almost the same as a Button without a bitmap except that it looks more like an internet link
• Image Image is a class for putting static bitmaps on the screen.
• Label Label is a very simple widget for creating both static and dynamic textual labels.
• ListBox The ListBox widget.
• ListBoxEx The ListBoxEx widget.
• ListItem The base class for making different kinds of items that can be put in a ListBox.
• ListItemFile Internal helper widget for the FileSelector.
• ListItemString A simple list item class for making textual list items
• ListView An internal helper widget for the ListBox.
• Menu The Menu widget class.
• MenuItem Internal helper widget for making menu items.
• MessageBox Standard message box dialog.
• Mouse The mouse input handling class.
• PageFlipping The Page Flipping screen update driver.
• Panel The basic panel widget.
• PanelGroove The groove panel widget
• PanelRaised The raised panel widget
• PanelRidge The ridge panel widget
• PanelSunken The sunken panel widget
• Point S simple class that holds two integers representing a point in 2D space.
• Progress The progress bar widget.
• RadioButton A radio button is almost identical to a checkbox.
• Rect A simple class that represents a rectangle in 2D space.
• Sample A wrapper for the Allegro SAMPLE structure.
• ScreenUpdate The base of the screen update driver system.
• ScrollBox This is a widget that can display something that is larger than the area of the widget on the screen.
• ScrollObject Implements the basic functionality of a widget that can scroll things.
• Scroller The scroller widget.
• Separator The separator widget.
• Settings Stores all the settings and preferences for a MASkinG application.
• Shortcut The shortcut widget.
• Size Almost exactly the same as Point.
• Skin The skin class.
• Slider The slider widget.
• SpinBox A compound widget made of an EditBox and two spinner Buttons.
• Splitter An invisible splitter object.
• TabPanel A compound widget for switching between several widgets (or dialogs).
• TextArea A multiline text viewing widget.
• Timer The timer system.
• Tooltip A helper widget for displaying popup help bubbles.
• TripleBuffer The Triple Buffering screen update driver.
• Wallpaper Similar to ClearScreen just that Wallpaper doesn't use a solid colour to clear the canvas but a wallpaper bitmap which can be drawn in one of several styles.
• Widget The widget baseclass.
• Window A movable and resizable dialog aka window.

Functions

• ChangeResolution Attempts to change the graphics driver and the screen resolution to the requested settings.
• ExitMASkinG Cleans up after the GUI.
• InstallMASkinG Initializes MASkinG.
• MakeFullPath Constructs an absolute path from the path of the executable and the relative path you specify and writes it to the destination string.

Variables

• globalFpsCounter A global instance of the CFPS class used for measuring the framerate of a MASkinG application.
• theSkin A pointer to the global default skin object.

Macros

• D_ANIMATING set when the widget starts animating
• D_AUTOSIZE set if the widget is resized automatically.
• D_CHANGEDSKIN set when the widget's or dialog's skin was changed
• D_HASCHILDREN set if the widget has child widgets (ie it is some type of a dialog)
• D_MODAL set if the widget (or window) is modal, that is if it captures all input until it's closed
• D_MOVABLE set if the widget is movable
• D_MOVED set when the widget or dialog was moved
• D_PRESSED set when the widget is being pressed down (similar to D_SELECTED)
• D_READONLY set this flag to make the widget read-only; currently this is only used by the EditBox widget
• D_RESIZABLE set if the widget is resizable
• D_RESIZED set when the widget or dialog was resized
• D_SPINNER set if the widget should generate MSG_ACTIVATE messages while being pressed down (for example a spinner button)
• D_SUSER you can use any powers of 2 above this.
• D_TOGGLE set if the widget can be toggled (a toggle button for example)
• D_TOPLEVEL Every top level dialog should have this flag set.
• D_WINDOW set if the widget is a window (ie it can be moved and resized)
• MASKING_DATE The release date.
• MASKING_SUB_VERSION The minor version number.
• MASKING_VERSION The major version number.
• MASKING_VERSION_STR The version string.
• MSG_ACTIVATE sent when a widget has been activated (button pressed, checkbox toggled, a list entry double clicked, etc)
• MSG_CLOSE sent when a widget that has the D_EXIT flag set was selected
• MSG_INITSKIN sent whenever a new skin is loaded (and whe the dialog starts)
• MSG_MOUSEMOVE sent when the mouse cursor moves
• MSG_MOVE sent when a widget or dialog was moved
• MSG_REMOVEME sent by widgets to ask to be removed from the dialog
• MSG_RESIZE sent when a widget or dialog was resized
• MSG_SCROLL sent when the position of a scroller, slider, etc has changed
• MSG_SHAPE sent when a widget or dialog was moved and resized
• MSG_SUSER this is the first user available message.
• MSG_TICK sent once per logic frame
• MSG_TIMER sent whenever a timer has ticked
• MSG_WANTMOUSE sent to query whether a widget wants the mouse or not
• MSG_WANTTAB sent to query whether a widget can be tabbed to

Enums, Unions, Structs

• FontInfo A simple structure which combines widget's font and font color settings
• MAS_OBJ_LIST Internal helper structure for moving input focus using the keyboard.
• MouseState Internal helper structure for handling mosue clicks.

Hierarchy of classes