OpenEuphoria

2. Re: Tgui Bug ?

• Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at POP.XS4ALL.NL> May 28, 1997
• 613 views

> Does anyone have any trouble with the tgui by David Cuny.I was trying to
> save as on it and got an erorr.I was trying to save but I wanted to change
> dir first so i put the mouse on the dir that I wanted and clicked that is
> when the erorr happened if you want David I can send you the er.err file
> the program stoped at that point.That is the only thing I have found you
> did some great work too.

        The text-gui is a great program, it is much more user friendly then
the default euphoria editor and i used to use  CTRL+Y and other keys
a lot, but i had got to learn to use CTRL+DEL, untill TexT-GuI came
out, without it i couldn't have written my MaZeR engine so easily.
        I've never experienced any of the trouble you did, but i have
experienced a few bugs. When i ran my program within the TexT-GuI and
my Euphoria reports a 'this functions requires thismany arguments'
error, TexT-GuI suddenly looked awfull like my NorTon Commander,
problely because TexT-GuI was no longer in memory and NC toke over
the command. The same has happened a few times also after different
bugs, but it really isn't that big of a problem, cause my program is
saved anyway before executing. I think your problem is
worse, since you got to start over.
        Another note, when i cut a line using CTRL+Y and then paste it, it
doesn't start at the beginning of the line, but at my cursor pos.
This was problely the intention, but it would be nice to work with
real indents instead if tabs. (So to have a different type of tab,
known as indent, with perhaps the CTRL+LEFT and the CTR+RIGHT key
that simple moves the line no matter where you are to the right or to
the left)
        I have also noted that when you are viewing something scrolled to
the right, the tab-stops do not scroll to. Exemple, you're text-view
starts at column 2 and goes to column 82, your cursor is at column
2, you press tab, the cursor moves to the 6th column instead of the
fifth!!
        Maybe a forced layout would be nice, when ever you are on the end of
a line is expand to the next in a way it looks good, and after
pressing the ',' a space is automatically inserted that can NOT be
removed, and more of the layout rules. Also tab-indent can be FORCED
and so can be the comments, just press '~' or something and you can
tyoe the comment. Best is to use a graphics mode and graphics fonts,
so the comments can be small, italic and between two lines. Maybe the
program could be made to only display the levels you are in, which
you can change by pressing TAB+LEFT and TAB+RIGHT. I ment something
like this:
      (NOTE: +  expanded, - not expanded, x can't be expanded.)
      (NOTE: The BGcolor of anything in a sector defined by the I's
should
                                                                        be different!)

(+) function my_other_function (atom  my_atom)

(-) function my_func (atom my_atom, sequence my sequence)
 I      (x) integer my_temp_integer
 I              (+) for g = 1 to 10
 I              (x) puts(1,"Almost done\n")
 I              (-) for h = 1 to 10
 I               I      (+) for d = 1 to 10
 I               I      (-) for j = 1 to 10
 I               I       I      (x) puts(1,"PieP!\n")
 I               I       IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
 I               I
 I               IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
 I
 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII


        Hope my ascII art is good enough to explain the idea, if not and
some one does care, mail and i'll explain, or try viewing using
Pegasus Mail. I do not use a fixed font. (Extually Pegasus Mail
doesn't !!)

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Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen
nieuwen at xs4all.nl
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