These pages provide on-line documentation for the tsmAPI library. They offer descriptions of the API function calls and data structures to enable a programmer to use the library to develop their own applications.

Emulation API Overview:

Previous versions of the tsmApi used a server-based paradigm as its central model. That is, you specified a particular tile set server to connect to and you could then only manipulate datasets on that server. The new tsmApi uses a connection-based paradigm so that you can manipulate any dataset on any server.

As a result of this major operational change, most of the API changed. However, to preserve backward compatability with programs that were developed using the old-style tsmApi, we have implemented many of the old API functions as an emulation layer on top of the new API.

These on-line API documentation pages were generated automatically from the tsmApi source code using the Doc++ package, by Roland Wunderling and Malte Zöckler, with some perl tweaking by Martin Reddy.

Martin Reddy, <reddy@ai.sri.com> / Yvan Leclerc, <leclerc@ai.sri.com>
Last modified: Tue Mar 10 23:58:56 PST 1998