1. How- Where?
- Posted by Wayne Thompson <Mrwayne51736 at CS.COM>
Oct 26, 2000
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Last edited Oct 27, 2000
I have downloaded it and installed Euphoria. I have read the "readme" file
and a couple of other files. Some things are not obvious to me and if they
are in the instructions I cannot find what I need to know.
In one file I found:
" Euphoria programs are executed by typing "ex", "exw" or "exu" followed by
the
name of the main Euphoria file. "
Okay, where do I type this in? Do I type it in from one of the Euphoria
files or from "run" on my Start menu?
When I open Euphoria, I find these files: BIN, DEMO, DOC, HTML,
INCLUDE, REGISTER, TUTORIAL, FILE.ID.012, INSTALL, and two README files.
Which one do I open to begin writing a new program? Do I need one of these
to run programs before I get the registered version? Where do I find
instructions for exiting from the IDE?
Thank you.
Wayne Thompson
2. Re: How- Where?
- Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET>
Oct 26, 2000
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Last edited Oct 27, 2000
Wayne,
You *could* run a Euphoria program from the "run" on your Start menu, but if
you know how to "associate" file name extensions with executing programs,
that would be easier, 'cause then all you have to do is *click* on the
Euphoria program's icon to run it.
But if you want to run one from the Start menu, you can: click start, click
run, click browse, find the Euphoria program, (you might have to click on
"all programs" to see them), open it, and then back at "start" type "ex" or
"exw" (depending on whether you selected a .ex or .exw program to run)
BEFORE the pathname of the program you selected.
To write a new program, just use any text style editor, write the code, save
it as "whatever.ex" , and then it is ready to run.
There is no IDE with Euphoria as far as I know, it comes with Win32Lib, &
you close it by clicking on the close button.
Dan Moyer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Thompson" <Mrwayne51736 at CS.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 8:05 PM
Subject: How- Where?
> I have downloaded it and installed Euphoria. I have read the "readme"
file
> and a couple of other files. Some things are not obvious to me and if
they
> are in the instructions I cannot find what I need to know.
> In one file I found:
> " Euphoria programs are executed by typing "ex", "exw" or "exu" followed
by
> the
> name of the main Euphoria file. "
> Okay, where do I type this in? Do I type it in from one of the
Euphoria
> files or from "run" on my Start menu?
> When I open Euphoria, I find these files: BIN, DEMO, DOC, HTML,
> INCLUDE, REGISTER, TUTORIAL, FILE.ID.012, INSTALL, and two README files.
> Which one do I open to begin writing a new program? Do I need one of
these
> to run programs before I get the registered version? Where do I find
> instructions for exiting from the IDE?
> Thank you.
> Wayne Thompson
3. Re: How- Where?
Unfortunately Euphoria still doesn't install any Win32 support.
It is targeted around DOS, at least the installation, setup-up and demo
files.
To get it going under windows you'll need to do the following.
* Click on an .Ex file in the demo directory. Then a dialog shows up, tell
it to use the file 'Ex.exe' from the Euphoria\Bin directory. Make sure you
check 'Always use this program' and name this file-mask 'Euphoria Program'
* Click on an .Exw file and to the very same. Except use the file 'Exw.exe'
from the Euphoria\Bin directory.
* Get Edith! from http://members.home.net/igb
--> Its the smallest, fastest and cutest of the Euphoria Code Editors.
* If you want to develop Win32 programs including complex interfaces, get
Win32lib. You find a link on the Euphoria website. This library offers the
full win32 support and comes with a neat design-tool to setup up your
windows, controls and their properties. Very simerlair to Visual Basic.
Note however, that Windows development is more complex than writing DOS
programs. DOS is the underlying operating system of Win9x and you can find
it at the start menu - programs - 'MS-Dos Prompt" .. its a command line
interface.
When you run an Euphoria file (such as .ex .exw .e .ew .eu .eux) and the
file generates an error, you will sometimes not see the error on Windows.
This is because the program is terminated, and windows sometimes
(optionally, btw) closes your window for you. You will need to look in the
same directory of the file, for a file called Ex.Err ... try to open it,
when the dialog shows up, tell it to use NOTEPAD to open this file. Also
make sure you check 'Always use this program for this file type'
Good luck!
Ralf N.
nieuwen at xs4all.nl
uin: 9389920
4. Re: How- Where?
On 27 Oct 2000, at 5:56, Fam. Nieuwenhuijsen wrote:
> * Get Edith! from http://members.home.net/igb
> --> Its the smallest, fastest and cutest of the Euphoria Code Editors.
I didn't see an editor there, just a greet page from @Home.
Kat
5. Re: How- Where?
Oops, Kat, you're quite right. It's goooonee!
Thankfully, its still somewhere in my own not-up-dated-since-a-year website.
This is the direct link:
PS. Wayne, are you listening ? Download and execute these files:
And kat, another nice tool, it reformats your code. I forgot who wrote it
though.
Still, for pure code editing I still recommend Edith. Its windows based, its
FAST, its clean and it looks slicker than any other.
Greetings,
Ralf N.
nieuwen at xs4all.nl
UIN: 9389920
> > * Get Edith! from http://members.home.net/igb
> > --> Its the smallest, fastest and cutest of the Euphoria Code
Editors.
>
> I didn't see an editor there, just a greet page from @Home.
