1. Visual Win32lib - New and improved! Diskmag - dead!
- Posted by Stephen Spencer <stephen.spencer at USA.NET>
Aug 18, 1998
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Last edited Aug 19, 1998
Hello there!
I got back from holiday and I noticed that some kind soul has donated
50c to Visual Win32lib. Thanks for the birthday present (16 today in
case anybody cares)! Actually realizing that somebody wants the damn
thing done, I got to work...
The whole thing has been totally re-vamped. It's now done in a lot less
code because I address controls dynamically, and the whole prgram is
therefore probably quicker (it now doesn't use 100%cpu, at least!).
I thought I would release it now as I've got to a good stopping-point
code-wise (there are a few loose ends like that Advanced Edit button).
There'll probably be a tidy release with loads more features in a few
days, but I thought you might like to grab this now, as you never know
how lazy I might become (hint hint, make me code faster by donating
money!)
Hawke wrote:
> might I request that you focus some effort on
> making win32 programming like...easy?
<snip>
> make a really easy WEE (windoze euphoria enviroment (tm))...
<snip>
> converting it from VB, and adding the ability
> to set all of a controls properties would make
> it a -fine- start to visual euphoria programming,
<snip>
> give it "snapping"
Thanks for a very good description of what Visual Win32lib will be (and
to some extent already is). Thanks Hawke! (I'm never going to call it
WEE, though!)
Grab this release while it's still hot:
http://members.xoom.com/sspencer/ssi/vw32lib4.zip
As for all this talk about my website being 'temorarily unavailable'
while I was away on holiday: rubbish! I just did a bit of a shiftabout.
The new Euphoria page is:
http://members.xoom.com/sspencer/ssi/euphoria.html
You can still navigate to it from the address in my sig, so what the
problem was, I don't know (maybe Xoom's server had the hiccups)
On a sad note (more tissues please), the second piece of software to
die this week (R.I.P. GNUphoria, long live Win32lib) is my diskmag. I
have been totally underwhelmed by the articles (one from Ralf's
archives, which I think is now available on his website). If anybody
feels like reading the questionnaires that I did get (Rob, Pete, Ralf +
Einar, I think) , please e-mail me for them.
Have fun mucking around with Visual Win32lib - I think you'll like the
next version even better!
Stephen
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stephen.spencer at usa.net
http://members.xoom.com/sspencer
ICQ#: 14614461
2. Re: Visual Win32lib - New and improved! Diskmag - dead!
- Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
Aug 18, 1998
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Last edited Aug 19, 1998
Stephen Spencer wrote:
>
> Hello there!
> I got back from holiday and I noticed that some kind soul has donated
> 50c to Visual Win32lib. Thanks for the birthday present (16 today in
> case anybody cares)! Actually realizing that somebody wants the damn
> thing done, I got to work...
>
Thanks. This is good stuff, and will (soon, anyway) be extremely
helpful. I second Hawke's request for a "properties editor"
where you can set the name of the routine to call on click/ on open/
on close.... etc. as well as the normal stuff like
text/font/colors/size/location.
These programs (Visual Win32/ Win32Lib) are the kinds of things that
will make
Euphoria more acceptable to more people. That will be good for all of
us.
Regards,
Irv
3. Re: Visual Win32lib - New and improved! Diskmag - dead!
- Posted by Hawke <mdeland at NWINFO.NET>
Aug 18, 1998
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Last edited Aug 19, 1998
Stephen Spencer wrote:
>Thanks for a very good description of what Visual
>Win32lib will be (and to some extent already is).
>Thanks Hawke!
yer velcome :)
>(I'm never going to call it WEE, though!)
awwww shucks... you mean i won't be able to run
around going "I code in WEEEEEEEEE!" and watch
the subsequent proferrers of those styling
white jackets with all the straps attempt
to parlay me with their "wears"?
next wishlist feature (after trying v32winlib4,
getting pretty nice stephen) is defnly a gotta
have... copy... copy control/paste to set up
multiple near-identical controls... such as
a bunch of buttons that do different things,
but all look the same for consistency of GUI.
*eagerly awaiting next release, hoping it includes
the feature of being able to edit more of a control's
properties, besides name and color... like
btnLoadFile[onclick] *wink*
the color picker is nice, but doesn't seem to allow
editing of all of a control's color properties???
ex:main window, you can only choose background color,
but not foreground color??? did i miss sumfin?
I do like the ability you gave the prog to be able
to edit properties, but (this is nitpicking i suppose)
that other window floating kinda gets in the way.
can you make it where it pops up when you right click
on a control and put an 'ok' button on the bottom
of the window to accept values and goaway?
>Have fun mucking around with Visual Win32lib -
>I think you'll like the next version even better!
have been, waiting (im)patiently??
take care all--Hawke'
4. Re: Visual Win32lib - New and improved! Diskmag - dead!
Stephen:
I've been using v-Win32 to make the skeleton of my Winsock demos. I've found
it very useful, and with the version you have released, is much better.
It would be very nice to have at least the most common events of each
control created also, (the same way you do with the Main Window OnLoad
event).
All the buttons are to be clicked, etc...
Keep up with this nice project.
Jesús Consuegra
5. Re: Visual Win32lib - New and improved! Diskmag - dead!
Hawke wrote:
> is defnly a gotta
> have... copy... copy control/paste to set up
> multiple near-identical controls... such as
> a bunch of buttons that do different things,
> but all look the same for consistency of GUI.
Good idea. I use that in VB3 a lot, but haven't thought of it here.
> *eagerly awaiting next release, hoping it includes
> the feature of being able to edit more of a control's
> properties, besides name and color... like
> btnLoadFile[onclick] *wink*
Coming soon! Everybody is asking for this (I can see why!), so I'll try
and get it done quickly now I've got a lot of time on my hands.
> the color picker is nice, but doesn't seem to allow
> editing of all of a control's color properties???
> ex:main window, you can only choose background color,
> but not foreground color??? did i miss sumfin?
Ask David. Win32lib doesn't support changing anything's colour apart
from the window background. I would enable the colour pickers for
everything else, but it wouldn't be much use, as you couldn't save the
info into the .exw. I'll enable them the second Win32lib supports it.
> I do like the ability you gave the prog to be able
> to edit properties, but (this is nitpicking i suppose)
> that other window floating kinda gets in the way.
> can you make it where it pops up when you right click
> on a control and put an 'ok' button on the bottom
> of the window to accept values and goaway?
I'll make it so you press F4 (like in VB) to bring it up and again to
send it away.
Thanks to everybody for your positive comments,
Stephen
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Stephen Spencer
stephen.spencer at usa.net
http://members.xoom.com/sspencer
ICQ#: 14614461
