1. Learning resources for version 4+
- Posted by GreenEuphorian Jan 12, 2014
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Hi,
what resources, other than the reference manual, are there for learning Euphoria version 4.0 and later? There are many other tutorials, but they refer to older versions.
Also, is there a Euphoria 'cookbook' somewhere, with snippets of code? Possibly commented code, for learning purposes. I know that there are lots of programs in the Archive, but most of them are not for learning purposes; they are just for accomplishing whatever they are meant to. What I am looking for is something nice and simple for newbies. I only found some code a Rosetta Code. Anything else?
Thanks
2. Re: Learning resources for version 4+
- Posted by fizzpopsoft Jan 17, 2014
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Hi,
the older code should still work. In essence, euphoria is backwards compatible.
There is lots of older code in www.rapideuphoria.com archive that will get you started,
and it even has a search engine.
However, there is an inevitable but:
Be careful of included libraries that may not be completely backwards compatible, eg win32lib
You would need to use the same vintage of include libs as the sample you are attempting from the archive.
I do that by placing my custom include lib ahead of the default euphoria includes via an entry in the EU.CFG file.
Often the sample code already has its includes bundled with it, then there should be no problem.
DOS support has also been officially dropped, but you can still do anything that you could do manually
from the windows command prompt using system() or system_exec()
Hope that helps.
