1. Euphoria problems
Henri....
You can't expect us to provide you with help if you don't actually
tell us what's wrong.
Euphoria is not like VB, nor are most languages. Rather than having to
do everything through a single program (I'm guessing you use the
microsoft program?) You can choose what program you want to use as
your editor, which program you want to use to do graphical
development, etc.
Read the documentation (look in C:\euphoria\HTML\ or C:\euphoria\DOC).
Then come back and ask questions if you still don't understand. If you
can't be bothered reading, then good luck, you deserve to be stuck
using VB, an absolutely horrible language.
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MrTrick
2. Re: Euphoria problems
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:48:55 -0800 (PST), Henri Maselati
<henrimaselati at yahoo.com> wrote:
> thanks for the reply.
No worries 
> few things:
> 1. i ran the IDE.exw, opened any project, it gives me
> a createprocesshi error.
> 2. i tried to compile (bind) any project, and i get:
> C:\henri\EUPHORIA\IDE.exw:13775 in procedure
> click_MenuRunBind()
> type_check failure, directory is -1
Hmm, that's odd. I don't know much about the intricacies of IDE,
that's Judith's project, and I don't know how often she's on the
Euforum (This is cc'd to the list so that perhaps other people can
shed light on the situation)
> 3. i also ran the veeditor , and even the search don't
> work.
Veeditor? Is that the editor that comes with the IDE?
I recommend and use M Editor:
http://palacebuilders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/emeditor.html
Perhaps it wouldn't be affected by whatever problems are affecting the IDE code.
> 4. i read the documentations, but couldn't find any
> comments on the error messages i got, except getting
> the lastest versions (which i have).
Yes, unfortunately not all of the widely used tools in the Euphoria
community are of a production standard... M Editor is stable most of
the time...
> 5. also i tried to get info on
> packaging/deployment/install, but couldn't find if
> there is a utility who creates a list of files for
> distribution, and dependencies.
Uh, not really, although there might be something in the archives.
Basically, if you're distributing to other Euphorians, you can just
send the files and includes you've created, and they'll have the other
things required. If you're distributing to people who don't have
euphoria, figure out all the include files required, put it in a
folder with the relevant executeable (exw.exe or ex.exe), and make a
batch file that runs the program.
> i am running on XP.
> it fustrating that instead on concentrating on
> learning a new language which sound promessing, and
> instead we have to get started with error fixing of
> types we don't even know how to begin.
>
> a conpiled version of ide.exw would have been great to
> start with.
Yes, it is frustrating. The reason that ide.exw is not distributed in
a compiled form, is that you can't debug a stand-alone executeable,
but you can debug it if it's distributed as source. So, people can try
and find bugs themselves, if they're real masochists.
> anyway,
> i hope you have answers to those problems.
> for me euphoria sounded like the last resort for
> programmers who are desperate of an enviroment (other
> that microsoft predators) which i fun, open source and
> friendly.
I hope I could help.
One last thing: Unlike VisualBasic, Euphoria (and most other
languages) are primarily a text language. The IDE is a nice tool for
creating GUI-rich applications, but its far from being necessary for
programming. The simplest way to start with Euphoria (and most other
languages) is with console applications. All you need is a text
editor, if you *really* want to do things the hard way, you could even
use notepad!
Save the files as .ex or .exw, and execute them with the appropriate
program in the /bin/ program.
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MrTrick
