Re: Euphoria and Xwindows
It was a dark and stormy night when Robert Craig wrote:
> David Cuny writes:
> > So Robert, is there any possibility of getting a
> > version of GraphApp embedded into Euphoria,
> > or is there a problem with licensing/you'd prefer
> > not to tie Euphoria to another product/some other
> > compelling reason?
>
> I tried out Irv's example programs and GraphApp wrapper,
> and I was impressed with how much he's been able to do
> in a short time, and with the simplicity of his example code.
> I used Red Hat 5.2.
>
> I don't plan to "embed" GraphApp into Euphoria.
> Irv seems to be doing fine without my doing that.
>
> My basic philosophy is to only put stuff into exu (ex.exe, exw.exe)
> that really *has* to be there. I'm always happier to implement
> a library routine in Euphoria than in C. For example,
> sort(), display_image(), read_bitmap() etc. could have
> been done in C inside the interpreter to gain a bit of
> performance, but I'd rather have library source code
> that is open, and easily modified by users or myself.
> It also saves memory for programs that don't need the
> library routine.
I tend to agree. Sooner or later, someone will implement SVGALIB
calls in order to do high speed graphics. And, with all the different Xwindows
libraries, someone will find a better one than GraphApp.. In either case, it
wouldn't help them if Euphoria came bundled with a lot of (what would be to
them) useless functions.
Rob: It sure would help if there were a debugging version of Eu for Linux
(Hint, hint)
I am getting a lot of 300 line errors, since the GraphApp file is around 1300
lines. Most of the problems can be traced out, but there are some that result
in a "seqmentation fault" and I have no idea what that even means, much less
how to fix it.
Regards,
Irv
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