1. Suggestion for 2.4 -- it's not too late!
Make the official version of the Windows interpreter a "version 4"
executable or whatever it is that the "convert" utility does to it.
That way everyone will get normal looking Windows when making GUIs
without having to know of the existence of a special utility. (Although
you still need it for translated programs with Watcom, I think.) I
imagine some users may have dropped Eu after making their first Windows
program when it had the Win 3.1 "look"...
2. Re: Suggestion for 2.4 -- it's not too late!
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:08:03PM +0000, Andy Serpa wrote:
>
> Make the official version of the Windows interpreter a "version 4"
> executable or whatever it is that the "convert" utility does to it.
> That way everyone will get normal looking Windows when making GUIs
> without having to know of the existence of a special utility. (Although
> you still need it for translated programs with Watcom, I think.) I
> imagine some users may have dropped Eu after making their first Windows
> program when it had the Win 3.1 "look"...
Or at least include it as part of the 2.4 distro, and add a note about it in
the documentation.
>
>
>
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3. Re: Suggestion for 2.4 -- it's not too late!
Hi Andy,
Note forgetting that most common controls appear wrongly. eg the
ComboBoxEx that appears highlighted at the top.
Jordah
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Serpa" <ac at onehorseshy.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Suggestion for 2.4 -- it's not too late!
>
> Make the official version of the Windows interpreter a "version 4"
> executable or whatever it is that the "convert" utility does to it.
> That way everyone will get normal looking Windows when making GUIs
> without having to know of the existence of a special utility. (Although
> you still need it for translated programs with Watcom, I think.) I
> imagine some users may have dropped Eu after making their first Windows
> program when it had the Win 3.1 "look"...
>
>
>
> TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE!
>
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4. Re: Suggestion for 2.4 -- it's not too late!
Andy Serpa writes:
> Make the official version of the Windows interpreter a "version 4"
> executable or whatever it is that the "convert" utility does to it.
> That way everyone will get normal looking Windows when making GUIs
> without having to know of the existence of a special utility. (Although
> you still need it for translated programs with Watcom, I think.) I
> imagine some users may have dropped Eu after making their first Windows
> program when it had the Win 3.1 "look"...
I'm including a little Euphoria program in euphoria\bin that will
make a 4.0 exw from a 3.1 exw, and another program that
will make a console app version of exw.
I can see only a *tiny* difference between the two GUI versions
(testing on Judith's IDE).
exw has always been a 32-bit program and has never
run on Windows 3.1
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
5. Re: Suggestion for 2.4 -- it's not too late!
Brian Broker writes:
> We already know that changing it only gets rid
> of the aforementioned quirks and doesn't break anything, so why not just
> distribute it as a 4.0 app?
OK. It will be 4.0, but I'll include a little program
that can create a 3.1 version, in case anyone encounters
any glitches. From the Microsoft docs, it certainly looks possible
that this could break someone's code, though hopefully it will be rare.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
6. Re: Suggestion for 2.4 -- it's not too late!
- Posted by cgibin at bellsouth.net
Jan 20, 2003
I hope to get credit for the fix I supplied to Robert months ago....
LCC an Bor automatically set ver 4.0 but Watcom has one
simple line that can be added.
Remember to put me in the documentation Robert ...
CGI-BIN aka: Euman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Craig" <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for 2.4 -- it's not too late!
>
> Brian Broker writes:
> > We already know that changing it only gets rid
> > of the aforementioned quirks and doesn't break anything, so why not just
> > distribute it as a 4.0 app?
>
> OK. It will be 4.0, but I'll include a little program
> that can create a 3.1 version, in case anyone encounters
> any glitches. From the Microsoft docs, it certainly looks possible
> that this could break someone's code, though hopefully it will be rare.
>
> Regards,
> Rob Craig
> Rapid Deployment Software
> http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
