1. Need Ideas
- Posted by Albert Brauneis <Dajawu36 at AOL.COM>
Nov 16, 1998
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Last edited Nov 17, 1998
Hi,
This happens to me all the time, I will get fairly good at something, either a
software package or a programming language and I will run out of ideas. If
anyone can give me ideas of what to do I would be greatfull.
Thanks,
Albert
2. Re: Need Ideas
>Hi,
>
>This happens to me all the time, I will get fairly good at something,
either a
>software package or a programming language and I will run out of ideas. If
>anyone can give me ideas of what to do I would be greatfull.
Hmmm. Could you code an Text editor that has an embeded HTML viewer?
Also a native-code (x86) Euphoria compiler would be great!
Regards,
Daniel Berstein
daber at pair.com
3. Re: Need Ideas
>This happens to me all the time, I will get fairly good at something,
either a
>software package or a programming language and I will run out of ideas. If
>anyone can give me ideas of what to do I would be greatfull.
Since, im always having more ideas than I can handle, of which most are out
of my current range of abilities, i'll share some of my ideas here.
+ A generic purpose preproccesor, that preprocceses a .pp file into an
euphoria executable. A preproccesor to convert .pp that have a special
format/syntax for readability purposes into an preproccesor. A
preproproccesor to create a preproccesor thus. Maybe integration with
David's EE would be nice.
+ Try to write an oberon like document-based interface/GUI. It would easily
be able to convert an HTML file to look good in there.. but any interface
would do.. If you dont know what brilliant interface im talking about, you
should go check out the OS/Programming Language/Programming Environment:
Oberon.
Ralf
4. Re: Need Ideas
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 21:29:41 EST, Albert Brauneis <Dajawu36 at AOL.COM> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This happens to me all the time, I will get fairly good at something, either a
>software package or a programming language and I will run out of ideas. If
>anyone can give me ideas of what to do I would be greatfull.
>
OK: using Jiri's font.e package, write an include file to
display <HTML> code. There are lots of uses for such a utility,
so make it a function callable from within our programs.
It would be useful for displaying help files, as a simple
local browser, or even as a front-end for other programs.
After all, there are a lot of programs that would work fine
and look nicer with a simple "form" capability such as you
see on the web every day.
I suggest as a minimum:
<H1>..<H6> and standard fonts
color hilighted links (your function would return the name of the link)
<code> or <pre> for program listing type layout, otherwise
text wraps automatically.
<form> with input fields for text entry and some buttons
<IMG SRC> to include graphics (a must!)
<BACKGROUND> to liven up things.
Regards,
Irv
5. Re: Need Ideas
- Posted by JJProg at CYBERBURY.NET
Nov 17, 1998
EU>+ A generic purpose preproccesor, that preprocceses a .pp file into an
EU>euphoria executable. A preproccesor to convert .pp that have a special
EU>format/syntax for readability purposes into an preproccesor. A
EU>preproproccesor to create a preproccesor thus. Maybe integration with
EU>David's EE would be nice.
If you'd like to work on that, you might want to check out EPP and use parts of
it in your code, or help write it because it is already pretty far
along. If you'd like to help, that would be great. You can go to the web
page at http://members.tripod.com/~JJProg/epp.html for more information.
Another project that could use some help is EuOS. You can go to the EuOS
web site at http://euos.hypermart.net/. We are trying to create an
operating system in Euphoria, which we will then port to C or Assembly
when it's finished. It is going to include all sorts of neat stuff.
Jeffrey Fielding
JJProg at cyberbury.net
http://members.tripod.com/~JJProg/
6. Re: Need Ideas
Hello Albert,
>This happens to me all the time, I will get fairly good at something,
either a
>software package or a programming language and I will run out of ideas.
If
>anyone can give me ideas of what to do I would be greatfull.
>
>Thanks,
>Albert
Heh heh, you really asked for it this time. Why don't you write a fast
3D realtime stragegy game starring 13th century warfare. As the general
the user needs to be able to move around among his troops and still have
a simple and easy interface for selection and direction. The units all
need to be 3d, not just animations (that always bugged me about
Doom/Heretic/etc.).
Good luck
I'll expect you to be finished within a week
Sincerely (not really),
Lewis Townsend
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7. Re: Need Ideas
- Posted by Adam Weeden <SkaMan325 at AOL.COM>
Nov 17, 1998
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Last edited Nov 18, 1998
Write a good tutorial for the Win32Lib.
PS If anyone is aware of one of these please let me know.
Adam Weeden
8. Re: Need Ideas
In DOS?
Well, a help to this idea is a article I read about a free graphics
engine for '95 (we all can't win) called "The Genesis Engine" by Eclipse
Entertainment. (www.genesis3d.com) The APIs supported so far are D3D,
Glide, and their proprietary rasterizer.
Just an idea, in case you do pursue the 3D game one...
-- "LEVIATHAN"
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