OpenEuphoria

Re: Babble about Win32Lib

• Posted by Daniel Berstein <daber at PAIR.COM> Mar 03, 1999
• 404 views

At 03:07 AM 03-03-1999 , you wrote:
>[Long Post Warning]
>
>Just thought I'd post the direction I'm heading with Win32Lib these days.
>This is pretty much speculation; after WinMan and Gnuphoria, I'm not making
>any promises that this will ever see the light of day.
>
>[The Problems]
>
>1. I can't add new controls to Win32Lib without rewriting the core code.
>
>2. Win32Lib doesn't support emulated (non-native, 100% Euphoria) controls.
>
>3. Maintaining ports such as Dos32Lib is difficult, because there is little
>code sharing.
>
>4. The graphic portion of Win32Lib is just a bit *too* hacked.
>
>5. The graphic portion of Dos32Lib is limping badly and needs a rewrite.
>
>6. Win32Lib is not very portable, and the X Windows port looms in the
>future.

Aha! You where listening to the ECM stuff we chatted. Didn't you? ;)

Personally I won't bother with platform independance... raise your hand
those that are using MacOs (2 or 3), those using Linux (10 to 15), those
using Windows (500 or more). Anyway I hope you succed supporting all those
platform.

EuCX? mmmm.... Are we playing simon says with Microsoft? ECM is more
elegant to me.

BTW Did you saw the code I posted about getting the RECT (win32 speaking)
of a string? Did it work?


Regards,
         Daniel  Berstein
         [daber at pair.com]