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 calculator files oriented applications.

Overview

The ticables library is able to handle the different link cables designed for TI's graphing calculators (also called handhelds) 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 independent of the Operating System and can be used on several platforms such as:
- any flavour of Linux (x86, Alpha, Sparc, iPAQ, ...),
- Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7,
- 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),
- TI's BlackLink,
- TI's GrayLink,
- TI's SilverLink,
- TI's DirectLink.

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

This library has already been used by various projects (such as TiLP, TiEmu, KTIGCC) and by other developers (the Ti Winamp project, for instance). A 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: You also need GLib 2.x.

Bug Reports

There may still be some bugs in the library, please send an email to  the tilp-devel@lists.sf.net mailing list.

History

This library is a part of the TiLP project. I have been working for 10 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.

Copyright

Copyright (C) 1999-2009 by the TiLP Team.
See AUTHORS for detailed authorship information.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

(A special exception applies when linking the library into TilEm, see the
COPYING file for details.)

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 General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this library (in the COPYING file); if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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