Ultra-SiMPLE's Construction Kits

A  "construction kit" provides you with a convenient way of adding specialized third-party tasks to your system. You are probably already familiar with one such set of tasks from your previous experiences with the pre-installed "@toys" tasks. (In fact we sometimes refer to those tasks as being the "Toys construction kit".)

An Ultra-SiMPLE construction kit ("Ultra-Kit") is merely one or more text files, each containing source listings* of tasks and functions. You can use these listings in any manner that is convenient for you, but here we will focus on using them with SiMPLE's "Drag & Drop" mode of operation along with the "Append" compiler directive.

"Installing" an Ultra-Kit

Since an Ultra-Kit is merely a set of text files (usually only one), all you have to do to "install" it is create a folder to put it in:`

1. First, create a new empty folder (the Project folder) anywhere that you like. This Project folder will be used to hold all the programs you'll be creating with the kit. You can give the Project folder any name you want to. (In this example, we will call it "Test")



2. Next, create a new empty folder inside the Project folder, and name it "Library". (It must be named "Library".)

   

3. Finally, place the kit's text file into the "Library" folder, and name the file "kit.txt" (unless the kit's documentation instructs you to do otherwise).

   

Using an Ultra-Kit

To use a kit, just follow the instructions given to you in the kit's documentation. (And be sure to create all your programs inside the Project folder so that they will have easy access to your "Library".)

The following Ultra-Kits are currently available:

BLOCKOUT: Create "Ball & Paddle" Games

MINEKIT: Create "Minesweeper" Games

*The original philosophy about the SiMPLE construction kits was that they would all be distributed as pre-compiled "object modules" (file type: ".OBJ") which could then be placed into a standard library. But with the growing concern over computer viruses, spyware, etc., all new construction kits are now being distributed as "open source" software. This way they can be used either in the traditional "Command-line" mode (by compiling them yourself) or in the newer "Drag & Drop" mode (by using the "Append" compiler directive).