OpenEuphoria

Re: Cool GUI's

• Posted by Gary Dumer <dumer9354 at MY-DEJA.COM> Oct 15, 1999
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Hi David,

Thanks for the kind words about VEL.

You're mostly right about VEL... Tree View is not yet implemented, but will
be as will Dockable Toolbars in the future.

BTW... VEL is written in Borland/Inprise Delphi.

Thanks, Gary.

P.S. I'm happy to see Win32Lib moving forward again.

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 00:21:04 -0700, David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> wrote:

>Jon Banquer wrote:
>
>>Many of the applications that I use have what
>>CAD/CAM vendors call a "feature tree".
>
>This is a 'List view'; it's similar to an Explorer 'Tree view', but it uses
>bitmap icons. No, I haven't implemented these. I don't think VEL has it
>either.
>
>
>> Can you have dockable panels?
>
>I haven't implemented MDI, and I don't plan to. Microsoft seems to be
moving
>away from the MDI model and to using tabbed panes for various documents. I
>don't know about VEL.
>
>
>> How about dockable toolbars?
>
>Toolbars are dockable, but I've chosen to implement them in Win32Lib as
>sticking to the top of the window. Again, I can't speak for VEL.
>
>
>> Is there anyway to program the middle mouse
>> button and pop up an HTML dialog box?
>
>You can trap any Win32 event.
>
>What's an HTML dialog box, anyway?
>
>
>> Can the toolbar be made dockable?
>
>Since they toolbars can't float in Win32Lib, no.
>
>
>> How about a file tree view like I have with UltraEdit ?
>
>The 'List view' is not currently implemented in Win32Lib. I don't think
it's
>part of VEL yet, either.
>
>
>> I have to admit that I really want to go with Euphoria but
>> I know that I am going to want the kind of tools
>> that I use everyday in my CAD/CAM applications
>> in my programs.
>
>
>What sort of application are you writing, and what makes Euphoria so well
>suited for it?
>
>Euphoria's support of Win32 is still a bit weak. VEL is ahead of Win32Lib
in
>the 'cool control' list, but your list exceeds even VEL. If you need all
>these widgets, I suspect you'd be better served with some other language.
>
>
>> What do you use for a Windows Editor for Euphoria?
>
>I use a DOS editor. It's a lot easier on my eyes.
>
>
>-- David Cuny