Compose
0.52 (08 Jul 2005)

For more information about Compose, refer to either the user manual (Manual)
or the technical manual (Technical) in the Docs directory that should have
been supplied with this application.

Compose is a visual programming language that uses hyper-pipes between
applications to allow componentised applications to be built graphically.

Various components are available to be used with the main Compose
application. These components are specially designed applications in their
own right. To create a program, components are dragged onto the Compose
canvas where they appear as icons. They can be moved around the canvas, and
links can be created between components that allow one component to transfer
data to another component. Data transfer works in a very similar way to Unix
pipes, except that whilst pipes are 1-dimensional, in Compose there can be
many links between components. Compose applications are therefore built up by
dragging links between components on the two dimensional canvas.

Once components have been linked on the Compose canvas, the whole application
can be executed as if it is one program. The Compose application then works
as an intermediary to the other components to martial data and send control
messages to the components.

Compose can be found at http://www.flypig.co.uk/compose.htm

Feel free to contact me about Compose for any reason by emailing
david@flypig.co.uk

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The licence for Compose and related components is open source, based on the
MIT licence. See below for more details.

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Copyright (c) 2005 David Llewellyn-Jones

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

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