1. The TextGUI proggie
- Posted by Izchak Aronov <izchak at NETVISION.NET.IL> Feb 04, 1997
- 1232 views
Hello David, I saw the program,and I realy liked it. But I found little bugs/places that need improvement, like : When you press on ALT and hold it,and after that you release it - the cursor stays after the "H" letter on the bar,and doesn't go down to the edit window. Sorry for my bad english, but I hope you'll understand it. Next. When I'm running the program, I get a message from the compiler : Warning: the value assigned to private variable outReg in toggle_blinking() is never used Hm...Let's go on. Why don't you make the "menu calling function" as in EDIT.COM ? I mean, when you press the ALT key and release it, the menu stays working and not goes back to the editor. Also I found out that the scrolling "char" isn't scrolling properly or not scrolling at all. I mean : run the open file function. You see the files, right? Right to the files you see the scrolling bar,right? Why the little #177 char is not moving in that line when you scroll thru the files? Damn, my english is realy bad, huh? :) Another thing is, when you're chosing something, please try to hide the cursor. Where is the mouse? :) Why when you choose the Search option, it's doesn't work and cursor disappear somewhere? I think that's all. If I'll find something else, I report you about it. It's a realy great software for euphoria community. Well done, David. C'ya all, Izchak Aronov.
2. The TextGUI proggie
- Posted by David Cuny <HW1.DCUNY at HW1.CAHWNET.GOV> Feb 04, 1997
- 1184 views
*** Reply to note of 02/04/97 05:39 thanks for all the comments from everyone. i'll take them under consideration as i think about if i really want to undertake this project. :) re: Cursor on menu. Should be fixed in demo v.3. re: Error message. I've got to put in "without warning" everywhere, but since this is still an alpha version, some tests are still in there. re: keeping the editor active once the Alt key is pressed. this has been suggested by Michael. it's top on my "to do" list. re: scrolling char(177). in v.2, i put up the bars, without any scrolling character. i've added them to v.3. (your english is fine, by the way). re: hide the cursor. i'll work on that. it's better, but there are still some places where it shows up. re: search option. look at the "readme.txt" file to find out which options are real, and which are "dummies". remember, this is a demo that's slowly turning into an editor - but it's not one yet. re: cursor disappearing. fixed in .3. hopefully, most of the cursor problems are fixed in the current release. a couple of other caveats: - maximum line length is 256 bytes. if the line length exceeds this, the program bombs. i hope to fix this in the near future so there is no line limit. on the plus side, the demo will load files that the DOS editor chokes on. - most of the files will eventually have a ".e" extension instead of ".ex". i've left it that way because i use my PP program, which generates ".ex" files. bad laziness on my part (like the warning in intense.e ) - the documentation is *much* more sparse than it should be, because i keep adding/reworking the innards. for example, you'll notice in the latest release that there is no overlap in control attribute values, and the obscure TOP has been replaced by FIRST_LINE and FIRST_CHAR, respectively. by the time beta comes around (really, not that far away), things should settle down and I'll do a "real" writeup. re: where's the mouse? i've got to give this a *lot* of thought. in the grand scheme of things, it's not that high a priority, but i won't rule it out. i won't start work on it until the editor is out... thanks again. -- david cuny