NITRO 0.3r documentation <not finished>


_<read this

nitro (hereafter X5e{7†9¡#¿) is a freeware program. author (hereafter kŸ+·—S)
owns all rights to X5e{7†9¡#¿. kŸ+·—S don't take any responsibility what
X5e{7†9¡#¿ may cause to you (hereafter u’1s­¡+\) in any way. So in other
words if u’1s­¡+\ screw up, kŸ+·—S don't want even to hear about that.
u’1s­¡+\ may not sell X5e{7†9¡#¿ without kŸ+·—S's promission. if u’1s­¡+\ are
putting X5e{7†9¡#¿ to some cd-rom which comes with magazine (or something
like that), u’1s­¡+\ have to contact me first.



_<what's nitro?

it's somekind of compiler to compile your .pas to .pas (very useful, eh..),
but there's difference that you can expand your syntax a little and to use
pre-defined procedures and create your owns (to system.nh). so you may use
something-like-c syntax when coding your proggies.



_<system requirements

i think that they're pretty much same as in TP, but the faster cpu and hd
you have the better. it's recommended that you use some disk cache program,
like smartdrive, when using nitro.



_<what's differences to tp?

* when entering procedure/function parameters you enter them like this:
    pascal version: "putpixel(10,20,30,40);"
    nitro version : "putpixel[10 20 30 40]"

  !!! notice that you can't put space after last procedure character.
  !!! also notice that there's no ";" character after procedure.



_<known bugs

* you can't write any comments unless you won't put space after "{"
  character. try to keep that in your mind.

* you can't enter NITRO procedure to any for statement. eg.
  "for c := 0 to 64 do NITRO_SETPAL[c 0 0 0]".

  !!! instead separate commands to different lines:
      "for c := 0 to 64 do
         NITRO_SETPAL[c 0 0 0]"

* nitro compiler is very slow; 350 lines takes about 5 seconds on DX4 120.

* assembly procedures propably won't work.

* i'm not sure but you propably can't put any arrays to any NITRO procedures.
  eg. "NITRO_PUTPIXEL[10 20 COLTAB[30] $A000]".



_<how to contact

send e-mail to grosse@sci.fi, or use private mail in MBnet (Ville Kivist”).
i don't want to hear anything that "your english sucks!@@" (i know that
already ;), but if you have good ideas or just some comments i would like
to hear some (huom! suomalaiset mielummin suameksi ;).