OpenEuphoria

1. Back in town

• Posted by Ekhnat0n Oct 30, 2016
• 1692 views

Hey dolls & guys,

The old Dutch windmill is still alive and kicking. It took 2 cardiac arrests (the latter followed by a 70+hrs coma) in 2015 and several months of mental recovery BUT I surely survived
to return here and be(come) the usual 'pain in the ass' like I was before.

How are things progressing?
Has a board of "overseeers" making Euph's development more coherent and organised (like Derek Parnell once suggested) been established?

That's it for now:

Ekhnat0n aka Antoine from the Netherlands

3. Re: Back in town

• Posted by Ekhnat0n Oct 30, 2016
• 1698 views

Thanks for the welcoming words Jean-Marc.
Good to see that one still is remembered by somebody at least.

Antoine(Ekhnat0n)

5. Re: Back in town

• Posted by Ekhnat0n Nov 05, 2016
• 1586 views

Hi, catsmeow,

Nice to hear you hiss at those stupid dogs.
If I start "wind-milling" and you really show
your claws as you usually did, MAYBE some
change might come.

Don't even start to think I forgot you either
because nolens volens.... you are one of my most respeted friends.

Antoine

7. Re: Back in town

• Posted by ryanj Nov 06, 2016
• 1541 views

I wouldn't say it's dead, just stalled at 98% progress.

9. Re: Back in town

• Posted by petelomax Nov 06, 2016
• 1547 views

Not intentionally picking on that specific quote, just something I felt like saying:

Things are still moving along, although maybe not as fast as one might ideally hope.

At the risk of sounding like I am trumpeting my own horn, and fully knowing this stuff is all still very much a work-in-progress, in 2016 Phix has seen:

First 64-bit (been solving newly found problems in that all day today, btw)
First Linux (still no gui yet)
Dictionaries
Unicode support
DLL creation
pGUI
arm disassembly

There have also been several releases of Redy, and there is a page-full of other stuff

Pete

11. Re: Back in town

• Posted by katsmeow Nov 09, 2016
• 1469 views

With all the code for IPC already submitted, why would i add more? And i am sorry about someone else's 14 year old dead geocities link. I don't think cross platform is going to matter when OE drops the windows platform, and since that's all i code for, this contribution would be as dead as all my other contributions.

In what universe is plain ole IPC the same as transparently and (almost) instantly sharing the user-chosen variable contents between programs? There's no polling, little cpu use, and code is eye candy plus one include file which the preprocessor writes.

I discussed the scheme on irc with the only person i know who was interested in it. But he is a looooooooong way from needing it.

When will it ever happen that people can download a working version of Phix, without coming here and asking about the missing files?

Kat

13. Re: Back in town

• Posted by katsmeow Nov 09, 2016
• 1447 views

I don't recall how FakeThreads worked, it's not in the RDS Archives, and i don't have a copy.

This is how clean the pre-processed eye candy for sharing variables in my globalvar code:

-- to test sharing chosen variables 
 
include std/console.e -- for wait_key() 
 
object junk 
sequence junk2 = 78 
shared sequence myid1 = "test2" 
shared sequence myid2 
shared object nesteddata = {"still test 2","test2",2} 
 
 
puts(1,"press any key to start changes in vars") 
junk = wait_key() 
 
myid2 = "i am still test2" 
 
 
sleep(1) 
myid1 = "Test2" 
 
sleep(1) 
myid1 = "TEst2" 
 
sleep(1) 
nesteddata = {"STILL TEST 2","TEST2",92} 
 
 
puts(1,"press any key to close") 
junk = wait_key() 

The dummy app which also used the shared variable names was just a loop which puts()'d out the data in a fast loop. Yep, that simple: executing myid1 = "Test2" in program1 caused program2 to print the new value.