1. Re: [E - 8 to 9 Jun 1997] jalous, plus some comments
Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at POP.XS4ALL.NL> writes...
E::>> Ralf: Please tell me what "jalous" is. Please! Is it english? 
::> I wrote it wrong that's for sure, i ment the word that says you want
::>something someone else does have and you don't, you want it (too),
::>that's what i ment with the word....
Just for the record, the word you're looking for is
"jealous"...
Your English is more than passable (it's better than that of
some native speakers I know); if you keep practicing,
you'll get better. Keep at it.
Some other comments:
1. Jiri - your font stuff is wonderful; if it could be sped up
a little bit, it would be superb - but I'm working on a support
program for a RPG, in Euphoria, and it will be using the
current version. Kudos. As an aside, I'm working on a font
that I call 8859-105; if I had LFNs, I'd call it 5px8859-1 - as
implied, it's a five-pixel-high font with a character set
compatible with ISO-8859-1; if other people find the idea
useful, and say so, I'll consider doing 8px, 14px, and 16px
versions of it. FWIW, ISO-8859-1 is standard across most of
Europe other than PCs (which seem to prefer code page IBM-850);
it's also the default character set for Windows and Win95, and
corresponds to plane 0 of Unicode and ISO-10646.
2. David - I am significantly impressed by your text_gui stuff;
I've bound ee and use it as my standard Euphoria editor. I
have encountered exactly two flaws to date: first, even if a
file is named appropriately, syntax highlighting doesn't work
when starting with a named but empty file (i.e., if I say "ee
foo.ex", and foo.ex doesn't exist, I won't get syntax coloring)
- although it works fine on an existing file with text in it.
Second, I had a block highlighted and planned to do a replace
in it; when I invoked the replace command from the menu, I got
an error about a negative index, and the DOS box (under Win31)
closed immediately (it wasn't supposed to; I "violated system
integrity").
3. Robert - I have no complaints about the current incarnation
of Euphoria, just some requests: First, in graphics.e, can we
have a circle/ellipse procedure that works on a center/radius
or center/semimajor/semiminor basis instead of on a
bounding-box basis, as the current one does? I've found that
most people think in terms of center/radius when dealing with
these shapes; it's an effort to switch to bounding-box mode. I
suppose I _could_ release a new version of extgraph.e, but...:)
Also, I'm _really_ hot for a Windows/Win95 version of Euphoria,
and a DOS version which can also handle creating LFN files.
Can I hold my breath waiting for the release without turning
blue?
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Jeff Zeitlin jeff.zeitlin at execnet.com
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