1. Re: Blow
- Posted by Ted Fines <fines at macalester.edu>
Mar 01, 2001
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Last edited Mar 02, 2001
I just got back from my tact lessons...
> 1) This is greek to me; means I don't understand a damn thing!
Slow down. Really, for your own good, just slow down. A lot of us
installed and 'get' Euphoria. We're not a bunch of super geniuses, we just
follows the instructions. If you get stuck in the instructions, post your
SPECIFIC problem here and it will most likely get answered.
> 2) Whare can I get a good tut to learn Eu
Download Euphoria. Install it according to the instructions it provides.
Several example programs are included. Consider that your tutorial. Run
them and read them. See how they do what they do. Write one of your own.
Start simple. Make your goal simple, like just printing out a line of
text, or reading in some keyboard input and doing something with it. Or
read in a number and print the result of it times two...
> 3) Whare can I get Medit
I don't know why you think you need Medit. As someone else has already
said, you may use any text editor at all to create Euphoria programs. Here
are a few that you can get and try for NOTHING:
<http://www.textpad.com> -- This is the best Text Editor for Windows
available.
notepad.exe -- This is on your Windows compter already
edit.com -- This is on your Windows computer already
pico -- This is on your Linux computer already
vi -- It'll be on your Linux system. You will find it incredibly hard to
learn. Then you'll learn it is quite powerful. Then you'll either love or
hate it.
> 4) I D/Led win32 lib & it doesn't install
I don't think it really has an install. You just copy a file to
c:\euphoria\include. Go back to where you got win32lib and you'll probably
find instructions for this.
> 5) I D/Led win32 tut and it don't work, I open it up and it says it
> can't find Ex.ex or something
This means that Euphoria isn't installed correctly. You need to add two
statements to the autoexec.bat:
set eudir=c:\euphoria
and also add c:\euphoria\bin to your PATH statement, eg:
old PATH statement:
PATH=c:\stuff;c:\windows;c:\morestuff
new PATH statement:
BTW, all that is IN THE INSTRUCTIONS, so I know you haven't read them.
> 6) I want to make games for windows; is it poss & will someone tell me
> HOW!
How about just learning to program first? I'm not trying to deter you,
most most of us sub-geniuses have to start at square one.
You sound impatient. This is only going to work against you. The Euphoria
installation instructions are quite clear and concise. Stop and read them
again. Then read the example programs. Then go back to the Euphoria web
site and download some other programs that do the kind of stuff you want to
do. Read them. If you get completely lost, then backup, and try something
more basic. It will all come, but it just takes a little time.
Once you have Euphoria installed, open your web browser and bookmark these
files on your hard drive:
c:\euphoria\html\refman.htm
c:\euphoria\html\lib_a_b.htm
c:\euphoria\html\lib_c_d.htm
c:\euphoria\html\lib_e_g.htm
c:\euphoria\html\lib_h_o.htm
c:\euphoria\html\lib_p_r.htm
c:\euphoria\html\lib_s_t.htm
c:\euphoria\html\lib_u_z.htm
c:\euphoria\html\library.htm
This will give you quick and easy access to all of the available built-in
functions, and a quick way to look up syntax, etc.
Good luck,
Ted
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