General Information about TiCables library 

  
The TiCables library is a part of the TiLP project and constitutes with the other libraries a complete framework for developping linking and/or TI files oriented applications.

Overview

The ticables library is able to handle the different link cables designed for the TI's graphing calculators (also called handheld) in a fairly transparent fashion. With this library, the developer does not have to worry about the different link cables characteristics as well as the different platforms.
The library provides a complete API which is very easy to use and makes things easier.

The library is completely independant of the Operating System and can be used on several platforms such as:
- any flavour of Linux (i86, Alpha, Sparc, iPAQ, ...),
- Windows 95/98/Me,
- Windows NT4/2000/XP,
- Mac OS-X.

The library supports all the currently available link cables:
- the home-made parallel (aka $5-cable),
- the home-made serial (aka $4-cable),
- the TI's BlackLink,
- the TI's GrayLink,
- the TI's SilverLink,
- the AVRlink.

The library supports also some 'virtual' link cables for connection with emulators:
- Virtual TI (VTi),
- (Gtk)TiEmu.

This library has already been used by various projects (such as TiLP, TiEmu) and by other developers (the Ti Winamp project, for instance). The list of developers/users can be viewed on the TiLP web site (Developers section).

Requirements

In order to work, the library may need some external drivers:

Bug Reports

There may still be some bugs in the library, please send an email to roms.

History

This library is a part of the TiLP project. I have been working for 3 years on TiLP as well as on some other projects (TiEmu, TiGCC).
I wroten this library for several reasons:
- split code,
- share code between my various project,
- provide source code to others.

As most of Linux programs, I maintain a file which lists modifications. This is called a ChangeLog that you can find here.

Disclaimer

Copyright (C) 1999-2002 by Romain LIEVIN, Mac OS-X port by JB (Julien Blache, jb@tilp.info), MinGW support by KK (Kevin Kofler, Kevin@tigcc.ticalc.org) 

The library is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License :
ticables library - link cable library.
Copyright (C) 2002 Romain Liévin

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

Contact

As I wrote this documentation and most of the parts of the TiLP project, surely the most of all questions will be addressed to me. So, if you have any questions, suggestions, problems, corrections, bug reports, ..., please mail me at:

roms@tilp.info

Romain Liévin
Voiron, France

Please, inform me about any noticed problem with the library and the documentation (including wrong links in the documentation). This will help me to correct the problem in a next release.

If you have a general programming question, it is a good idea to see whether it is already answered on the tilp-devel mailing list. If not, you can post your question there.

NOTE: Before asking me a question, please check whether this question is already answered in the Frequently Asked Question list: I have a job now. Thus, I have less time to give to questions.

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