1. Demos: Preferences?

Hello there,

Im creating and modding some demos and i was wondering what the
preference for various demos was: short demos that do a specific
thing, or larger demos with lots of stuff with each thing labeled?

Feel free to email or respond here.


Take care,
Al

And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!

My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"

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2. Re: Demos: Preferences?

Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Im creating and modding some demos and i was wondering what the
> preference for various demos was: short demos that do a specific
> thing, or larger demos with lots of stuff with each thing labeled?

I vote "Short demos for specific thing."

-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/

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3. Re: Demos: Preferences?

On 11 Jul 2005, at 8:49, Al Getz wrote:

> 
> 
> posted by: Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com>
> 
> Hello there,
> 
> Im creating and modding some demos and i was wondering what the
> preference for various demos was: short demos that do a specific
> thing, or larger demos with lots of stuff with each thing labeled?

Both.

Because, for example, i got questions like "why would you do that?" with 
every lib i submitted! So like in strtok-v2-1.html, i have several one-line 
examples, and at the bottom i an example or two on how i have used strtok 
in everyday code. Same with the eu-mirc code, "why would you want to run 
Euphoria behind mirc?", because mirc is recognised by all the ircd 
connection tests and it's a very stable interface between Eu and irc (and you 
can http, email, etc with mirc!). If you needed a fast database in your irc 
code, mirc wasn't the language to write it in because it's too slow, but 
connecting Eu to it made it come to life. Plus, you could shut down the Eu 
and leave the mirc connected while you recoded the Eu, saving on irc server 
connection floods.

Kat

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4. Re: Demos: Preferences?

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:49:27 -0700, Al Getz <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
wrote:

>Hello there,
>
>Im creating and modding some demos and i was wondering what the
>preference for various demos was: short demos that do a specific
>thing, or larger demos with lots of stuff with each thing labeled?
>
I find smaller demos more useful. It would also be nice to have one or
two full-blown demos, with all the bells and whistles, all the i's
dotted and all the t's crossed, to show what it really takes to create
a complete application, but I'd trade ten 35-line demos for one
800-line any day. A launcher/source code browser with suitable
descriptions (eg Listview with custom colours and fonts) is obviously
much better than a directory with ex01, ex02, etc.

Regards,
Pete

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5. Re: Demos: Preferences?

Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Hello there,
> 
> Im creating and modding some demos and i was wondering what the
> preference for various demos was: short demos that do a specific
> thing, or larger demos with lots of stuff with each thing labeled?
> 
> Feel free to email or respond here.
> 
> 
> Take care,
> Al
> 
> And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!
> 
> My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> 


Demos of what Al?

Win32lib,Graphic viewer or mirc?

Don Cole
SF

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6. Re: Demos: Preferences?

Hello Don, Pete, ck, and Kat,


Ok i guess some people like small demos and others large and
still others both :)

Don:
Im working on demos for my new WinClass lib v1.005 .
There are a lot more classes now so it's taking a bit more
time to do.  The original test program was my calculator,
which is kinda big for a demo.


Take care,
Al


And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!

My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"

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7. Re: Demos: Preferences?

I think short, if you want the user to view the source 
and understand it. You could tie them into a menu. 



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