OpenEuphoria

2. Re: Question for Charles Newbould, Judith Evans, Matt Lewis - or anyone else!

• Posted by ghaberek (admin) Sep 06, 2016
• 1671 views

FYI, Judith passed away last year.

-Greg

4. Re: Question for Charles Newbould, Judith Evans, Matt Lewis - or anyone else!

• Posted by dr_can Sep 06, 2016
• 1714 views

Yes, I (Charles Newbould) am.

You can find Version 1.0.6 on the Euphoria website (since Apr 22/14). This is a tidying-up of the last version Judith wrote, but which she never released. As far as I know it is stable, but as I rarely hear of anybody using it, I cannot be sure. If you want to run this via an interpreter it is best to use exw, unless you have a very fast machine, but there is an exe version in the distro. There are options to choose either Eu3 or Eu4 to run/test your solution.

There is a significant re-write (Version 1.0.7), which is intended to be the last which will support Eu3.1.1. This is being tested at present. It has a few bugs, but these tend not to surface in normal usage! It is not currently on general release, though, and I haven't got a date for this yet.

At https://bitbucket.org/CANewbould/euvide you can find Version 1.0.8, which uses Eu4's facilities in the code. This, too, has some known bugs but some users have tried it out and are not displeased by it. (No 64-bit, though, because it, by definition, uses the extant 32-bit win32lib, although this IDE uses my "own" version of that library (idea thanks to J M Duro, in truth), which is better for fast loading. This version is being worked on at present, so it keeps changing, but you are welcome to give it a go. A Tutorial is in a fairly advanced state of preparation and that will appear on the Bitbucket site. I am also working on re-instating Judith's "toolkit" approach, whereby the IDE becomes the tool for its own development, but I have no idea how long that might take me. In any case, if successful, a normal user wouldn't (need to) know.

6. Re: Question for Charles Newbould, Judith Evans, Matt Lewis - or anyone else!

• Posted by jessedavis Sep 07, 2016
• 1619 views

Thanks for the quick replies.

I have been using various incarnations of this program for years. Currently using 1.06 20 Nov, 1012. On the whole, it is easy to use, provides fast GUI construction, and is, more or less, reliable. There are, however, several bugs that I find annoying. I have found some workarounds. I thought I might investigate fixing them but the complexity of the code is daunting. Anyway, here are my concerns:
1. The program has a nasty habit of constructing multiple entries of controls in the .exw file created. This causes "attempt to redefine" errors. I have looked at the .prj file and see no reason why multiple entries are generated. Frequent backups of the project file are a must. This happens, maybe, 5% of the generation times.
2. The window message box editor has a problem on closing. I think it destroys the recent window or menu. In any event, about one in 5 usages will cause the program to crash. It is imperative that one manually saves the file before every attempt to use the editor - or simply, don't bother with the editor and just use a snippet to insert the boilerplate.
3. Dragging a control edge to expand it causes the program to crash. This seems to happen only after the number of controls passes about 50. Does not affect the project file so just restart the program.
4. I have a few suggestions to improve the performance and usefulness of the program.
5. I just don't know where to start; however, I am willing to put some effort into it if enough people use the program to make it worthwhile.
6. It's raining here.

My real question is how to proceed from here and is it worthwhile?
Regards,
jd

8. Re: Question for Charles Newbould, Judith Evans, Matt Lewis - or anyone else!

• Posted by jessedavis Sep 09, 2016
• 1533 views

Win32lib v0.70.20 restructured Release 2 (2014-11-02)

Windows 7 professional service pack 1

Thanks - send more later.

Regards, jd