1. I need help!
- Posted by Mattymatt May 17, 2009
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I am reading David Gay's A beginner's guide to Euphoria II (ABGTE2), because I am completely new to programming, and found Euphoria. Some place on Rapideuphoria.com said if I was completely new to check it out, I'm still reading it, but I don't know how to even make one of his demo programs. Can anyone help?
2. Re: I need help!
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) May 17, 2009
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I am reading David Gay's A beginner's guide to Euphoria II (ABGTE2), because I am completely new to programming, and found Euphoria. Some place on Rapideuphoria.com said if I was completely new to check it out, I'm still reading it, but I don't know how to even make one of his demo programs. Can anyone help?
Yes
3. Re: I need help!
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) May 17, 2009
- 1146 views
I am reading David Gay's A beginner's guide to Euphoria II (ABGTE2), because I am completely new to programming, and found Euphoria. Some place on Rapideuphoria.com said if I was completely new to check it out, I'm still reading it, but I don't know how to even make one of his demo programs. Can anyone help?
Yes
What Derek means to say is, can you ask a more specific question? This is a very friendly and helpful community, but specific questions will give you the best results. I haven't looked at ABGTE2 in many years, but if you can post the code you're looking at, and ask a question, I'm sure there are many people who would be happy to give you answers.
Based on your question here, I'll start by saying that a euphoria program is simply a text file (or many of them!) with the code written in it. The euphoria interpreter is a regular executable program that reads the file and takes action based upon what is written there.
In order to create a program, you'll need a text editor. At a minimum, assuming you're on windows, you could use notepad. There are many better choices, and everyone has their favorite, but for doing simple demos, notepad is probably fine to get started with.
Matt
4. Re: I need help!
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) May 17, 2009
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I am reading David Gay's A beginner's guide to Euphoria II (ABGTE2), because I am completely new to programming, and found Euphoria. Some place on Rapideuphoria.com said if I was completely new to check it out, I'm still reading it, but I don't know how to even make one of his demo programs. Can anyone help?
Yes
What Derek means to say is, can you ask a more specific question?
Exactly. There are no stupid questions, but there are stupid answers - like the one I gave.
The first lesson here is that if want an answer to be useful, you really need to ask a useful question, and a way to do that is to tell use exactly what you have been trying and exactly what the results have been, and tell us what you are trying to achieve and then we might be able to get to the next point.
For example, you said "I don't know how to even make one of his demo programs. Can anyone help?". By this did you mean that you've never created a program of any sort before and don't have a clue about how to start?
Ok, I'm going to ask some questions here that might sound like I'm condescending, but as I know nothing of your background I have to ask some pretty basic stuff.
- Are you on Windows or Linux?
- Do you have a text editor?
- Have you used a text editor before?
- Have you downloaded Euphoria yet? (I assume you are talking about v3.1 Euphoria).
- Is it installed correctly?
- Run the Euphoria interpreter to see what happens.
- If running under windows, start a Command window and type in "exwc" at the prompt.
- If running under linx, start a Command console and type in "exu" at the prompt.
- If it is installed correctly, you should see something like ...
- Run the Euphoria interpreter to see what happens.
Euphoria Interpreter 3.1.1 for 32-bit Windows. Copyright (c) Rapid Deployment Software 2007 See http://www.RapidEuphoria.com/License.txt file name to execute?The "file name to execute" message is asking you to type in the name of a program source code file for it to run. You create a source code file with a text editor; this is your program.
A Euphoria program consists of one or more text files that contain the source code.
Ok, so is this enough of a start or is there something more that is still a problem for you. Just keep telling us what you are trying to do and asking questions here and people will try to help.
5. Re: I need help!
- Posted by penpal0andrew May 17, 2009
- 1155 views
I am reading David Gay's A beginner's guide to Euphoria II (ABGTE2), because I am completely new to programming, and found Euphoria. Some place on Rapideuphoria.com said if I was completely new to check it out, I'm still reading it, but I don't know how to even make one of his demo programs. Can anyone help?
Yes
What Derek means to say is, can you ask a more specific question? This is a very friendly and helpful community, but specific questions will give you the best results. I haven't looked at ABGTE2 in many years, but if you can post the code you're looking at, and ask a question, I'm sure there are many people who would be happy to give you answers.
Based on your question here, I'll start by saying that a euphoria program is simply a text file (or many of them!) with the code written in it. The euphoria interpreter is a regular executable program that reads the file and takes action based upon what is written there.
In order to create a program, you'll need a text editor. At a minimum, assuming you're on windows, you could use notepad. There are many better choices, and everyone has their favorite, but for doing simple demos, notepad is probably fine to get started with.
Matt
Crimson Editor is one of the few which has syntax highlighting for Euphoria. Perhaps someone has done this for my favorite Editor Notepad?
It is amazing that of all of the computer languages out there, someone would have found Euphoria as their first one!
Andy
6. Re: I need help!
- Posted by euler May 17, 2009
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- Last edited May 18, 2009
Crimson Editor is one of the few which has syntax highlighting for Euphoria. Perhaps someone has done this for my favorite Editor Notepad?
It is amazing that of all of the computer languages out there, someone would have found Euphoria as their first one!
Andy
I've been using PSPad with good results. I made some improvements to its Euphoria syntax highlighting and built an interactive clipping and code completion, language definitions, macros, hot keys, and some templates. The add-on can be installed to (uninstalled from) your PSPad environment. Just pick the package from my 4shared repository. It assumes PSPad is already installed at its default folder, but you can change paths if necessary. It should be installed ONLY after PSPad installation or it could possibly damage some PSPad's folders upon removing ("uninstallation"). http://www.pspad.com/en/
I also tried Notepad (it has folding!) but found it somewhat clumsy to handle (though Scintilla is a great edit component). PSPad is more of my style. Right now I'm using latest beta, but the package works with all available version.
7. Re: I need help!
- Posted by shfrance May 17, 2009
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- Last edited May 18, 2009
Amazing. I discovered PSPad for some Lua scripting just a few days ago and thought it a Euphoria candidate too.
8. Re: I need help!, Specifying
- Posted by Mattymatt May 18, 2009
- 1119 views
Basically what I am asking, is, after I write a program in Euphoria's Editor, how do I make it work?
9. Re: I need help!
- Posted by Mattymatt May 18, 2009
- 1126 views
I am on Windows, I have the Text Editor that came with the Euphoria package from Rapideuphoria.com, but I have not used it before, and it is installed correctly, but What is a source code?
10. Re: I need help!
- Posted by shfrance May 18, 2009
- 1103 views
You are indeed new to programming. On the flashy front page of openeuphoria.org there is a link called documentation. Start at the first two top left.
11. Re: I need help!
- Posted by Mattymatt May 18, 2009
- 1170 views
Thanks, but how do I make a Euphoria Program, I use the editor to make it right? Then what do I do to make it a Euphoria program so all the colors work for all the statements and data objects?
12. Re: I need help!
- Posted by euler May 18, 2009
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- Last edited May 19, 2009
Thanks, but how do I make a Euphoria Program, I use the editor to make it right? Then what do I do to make it a Euphoria program so all the colors work for all the statements and data objects?
Euphoria programs are made out of plain text files, like most computer languages. All you need is to put Euphoria statements and data in a proper way. Maybe ABGTE is what you need. You can find ABGTE at the Archive. http://rapideuphoria.com/archive.htm
There's also an eBook "Euphoric Mysteries", from Bill Aitken, not totally finished, but freely available from author. You should write him for a copy: wmaitken AT hotmail SPOT com
After running the eBook at your box it will give you a key and ask for a passcode. Email him again furnishing the key (a three digit number) and he'll return the passcode to you.
Hope this helps.
13. Re: I need help!
- Posted by DanM May 19, 2009
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I am on Windows, I have the Text Editor that came with the Euphoria package from Rapideuphoria.com, but I have not used it before, and it is installed correctly, but What is a source code?
Source code is the program that you write in a text editor.
It's called "source" code because it doesn't actually run directly in the computer's cpu, but is rather translated by the Euphoria interpreter into the machine language code that does end up running on the cpu. Your program, as you write it, is therefore the "source" for the final program that does run on the cpu.
Dan
14. Re: I need help!, Specifying
- Posted by DanM May 19, 2009
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Basically what I am asking, is, after I write a program in Euphoria's Editor, how do I make it work?
Press the <escape> key, to bring up a line of menu choices at the top of the screen; then press the letter "e", and that should run the program that you've written in the editor, if it's written correctly.
Dan
15. Re: I need help!
- Posted by Mattymatt May 19, 2009
- 1137 views
Thanks, but how do I make a Euphoria Program, I use the editor to make it right? Then what do I do to make it a Euphoria program so all the colors work for all the statements and data objects?
Euphoria programs are made out of plain text files, like most computer languages. All you need is to put Euphoria statements and data in a proper way. Maybe ABGTE is what you need. You can find ABGTE at the Archive. http://rapideuphoria.com/archive.htm
There's also an eBook "Euphoric Mysteries", from Bill Aitken, not totally finished, but freely available from author. You should write him for a copy: wmaitken AT hotmail SPOT com
After running the eBook at your box it will give you a key and ask for a passcode. Email him again furnishing the key (a three digit number) and he'll return the passcode to you.
Hope this helps.
I am in the midst of reading ABGTE still, like 2/3 done, When I write it in there though, say if I just type atom, it doesn't turn purple. Thanks everybody.
16. Re: I need help!
- Posted by Mattymatt May 19, 2009
- 1107 views
I installed the directory the second way, by using Run, in the manually edit autoexec.bat from http://www.rapideuphoria.com/install.htm What does it do?
