1. Wonderful Euphoria but lacks install bundled packages
- Posted by steve stark <stevestark5000 at yahoo.com>
Jun 08, 2007
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Last edited Jun 09, 2007
This is my first post to the community.
For the last five years I have been trying to decide what programming language
to use on the pc. That time was of course just random as I only spend a few hours
every month of so. I was looking at euphoria about 4 years ago but at that time
Euphoria had low ratings when compared to the other basic languages, and I was a
bit overwhelmed trying to pick through the large archive of Euphoria files to
test what would be good to have for my programming time.
After all the years of study of about 200 languages, Euphoria and BCX were my
top picks. Both have a to C translation and both are easy to learn and somewhat
fast to compile programs. Yet, I have now decided that I will use euphoria
because of a large and active forum and a better community. I congratulate the
founder of Euphoria for the efforts, time and dedication that is continuously
going into the wonderful Euphoria project.
I am still overwhelmed trying to put together a package. Win32Lib programs do
not seem to compile as fast as wxEuphoria programs, but I am sure there is a
compiler that I can use other then the default. WxIDE in the SVN does not seem to
work with the latest wxEuphoria programs in win32. I find that I am wasting time
trying to put things together.
I believe that euphoria would be much more popular if only some bundled packages
would be make available. I am now hampered between wxEuphoria and Win32Lib.
That program would have a chatroom for the members to discuss the various things
within the program. I am using win98 and I am asking if someone can help me to
put a package together so that I can begin the programming. wxEuphoria and
Win32Lib are my two picks.
I am able to install Win32Lib but it compiles slow in the Enhanced IDE and as I
said wxEuphoria does not work for me with the latest files of wxIDE from SVN.
wxEuphoria works with more than one OS that my program could run under, that is
if it was not for the wxIDE. Win32Lib is only for windows but the Enhanced IDE is
great. So maybe someone could help me pick a compiler to use with the Enhanced
IDE or put together a workable wxIDE package.
2. Re: Wonderful Euphoria but lacks install bundled packages
steve stark wrote:
>
> I am able to install Win32Lib but it compiles slow in the Enhanced IDE and as
> I said wxEuphoria does not work for me with the latest files of wxIDE from
> SVN.
Steve, have you seen my wxEuphoria tutorials? Maybe they'd be helpful for you
at this point.
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/index.esp?page=wxeuphoria
3. Re: Wonderful Euphoria but lacks install bundled packages
Steve,
You seem to be talking about compiling as if it is the only way to
test your applications. Let's keep in mind that Euphoria is an
interpreted language first. I personally only compile when I am ready
to distribute an application, and only then when it needs a little
gain in speed. Most times I just use bind.
Here's what I suggest to get started with Euphoria GUI programming:
1. Download and install Euphoria.
2. Download Win32Lib and extract it to %EUDIR%\Win32Lib
3. Download Judith's IDE and extract it to %EUDIR%\IDE
4. Run the IDE.
5. Play around with it.
6. Don't worry about *compiling* right now.
~Greg
On 6/8/07, steve stark <guest at rapideuphoria.com> wrote:
>
>
> posted by: steve stark <stevestark5000 at yahoo.com>
>
> This is my first post to the community.
>
> For the last five years I have been trying to decide what programming language
> to use on the pc. That time was of course just random as I only spend a few hours
> every month of so. I was looking at euphoria about 4 years ago but at that time
> Euphoria had low ratings when compared to the other basic languages, and I was a
> bit overwhelmed trying to pick through the large archive of Euphoria files to
> test what would be good to have for my programming time.
>
> After all the years of study of about 200 languages, Euphoria and BCX were my
> top picks. Both have a to C translation and both are easy to learn and somewhat
> fast to compile programs. Yet, I have now decided that I will use euphoria
> because of a large and active forum and a better community. I congratulate the
> founder of Euphoria for the efforts, time and dedication that is continuously
> going into the wonderful Euphoria project.
>
> I am still overwhelmed trying to put together a package. Win32Lib programs do
> not seem to compile as fast as wxEuphoria programs, but I am sure there is a
> compiler that I can use other then the default. WxIDE in the SVN does not seem to
> work with the latest wxEuphoria programs in win32. I find that I am wasting time
> trying to put things together.
>
> I believe that euphoria would be much more popular if only some bundled
> packages would be make available. I am now hampered between wxEuphoria and
> Win32Lib.
>
> That program would have a chatroom for the members to discuss the various
> things within the program. I am using win98 and I am asking if someone can help
> me to put a package together so that I can begin the programming. wxEuphoria and
> Win32Lib are my two picks.
>
> I am able to install Win32Lib but it compiles slow in the Enhanced IDE and as
> I said wxEuphoria does not work for me with the latest files of wxIDE from SVN.
> wxEuphoria works with more than one OS that my program could run under, that is
> if it was not for the wxIDE. Win32Lib is only for windows but the Enhanced IDE is
> great. So maybe someone could help me pick a compiler to use with the Enhanced
> IDE or put together a workable wxIDE package.
>
>
>
>
4. Re: Wonderful Euphoria but lacks install bundled packages
Hi Greg
Yes, I assumed that clicking the 'run' compiled then ran the program, but
regardless, the Enhanced IDE executes programs about 3x faster than WxIDE on my
OS. At this point I might use the Edita IDE to begin learning the programming
without any GUI editor. I guess I have decided to do this the hardcore way.
5. Re: Wonderful Euphoria but lacks install bundled packages
steve stark wrote:
>
> Hi Greg
>
> Yes, I assumed that clicking the 'run' compiled then ran the program, but
> regardless,
> the Enhanced IDE executes programs about 3x faster than WxIDE on my OS. At
> this
> point I might use the Edita IDE to begin learning the programming without any
> GUI editor. I guess I have decided to do this the hardcore way.
Within Edita there is actually a Tools/Window Painter option which is indeed a
"GUI editor" but deliberately not a full-blown IDE or in any way intended to
rival Judith's or wxIDE. See welcome.txt. I can almost guarantee you will have
some problems with it, if so let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Regards,
Pete
