1. Question for Jerry Story
- Posted by Ken Rhodes <ken_rhodes30436 at yahoo.com> Nov 27, 2002
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Congratulations and thanks to Jerry Story for the LINUX port of DMAK! Now I have a question... I recall that your initial experience with Linux was a bit frustrating. Yet, it seems quiet evident that the LINUX port is superior to the Windows version both in appearance and speed of exectution. I'm sure the port was a tremendous learning experience - but what is the bottom line from your point of view as far as comparing euphoria programming under LINUX and GTK ( Irv's Lib ) vs Windows? Ken Rhodes
2. Re: Question for Jerry Story
- Posted by Jerry Story <jstory at edmc.net> Nov 27, 2002
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Ken Rhodes, in reference to DMAK for Windows versus DMAK for Linux, asks: what is the bottom line from my point of view comparing Euphoria programming under LINUX and GTK (Irv's Lib) vs Windows? 1. EuGTK's clist is vastly superior to win32lib's listview (at least the last time I tried listview, which was some time ago and it might have been improved since then) . Superior both in numbers of things you can do with it and absence of bugs (so far as I know). In the Windows version, I used ordinary list instead of listview. 2. As a consequence of using list instead of listview in the Windows version, it was necessary to use a font with all the characters the same width (eg: i and w), and therefore I did not allow the user choice of font. In the Linux version, there is choice of font. 3. The superior speed of the Linux version, I think is because database.e works faster on Linux than on Windows. 4. I had some help from Irv Mullins. 5. I found EuGTK more confusing than than win32lib, but maybe that's largely because it's a new thing for me. Bottom Line: I intend to do some more Linux programming. It seems to me the Linux world has a severe shortage of quality programs compared with the windows world. For example, in the Windows world there are lots and lots of nutrition programs, but in the Linux world there are only two nutrition programs, according to freshmeat: gnutrition and nut. I think mine is better than both of them, my opinion only, feel free to disagree.