Re: Newbie very confused
- Posted by DanM Mar 15, 2009
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Dear Tom and Jeremy, Thanks a lot both of you. Have downloaded e31setup.exe and everything now runs. Have looked at David Gray's tutorial. The start defining variables was essential but it then got a bit verbose. Cumbersome in DOS I thought. Am about to download "Think Euphoria"
I am told to download win32lib. Why? where should it go? Which folder? Also required to download a GUI file. Can't remember the name? What does it DO?
You have both been most helpful and I realise I'm asking a lot of you.
I'm afraid that at my age (77!) it's too late to bury myself in a manual and learn the whole systax of Euphoria. I need to start a project and learn what is necessary to achieve my objective. I have in mind a full screen callender with editable date boxes. Is that a bit OTT do you think?
Regards to you both and thanks. alec
Win32Lib is a library of functions and procedures which allow the Euphoria programmer to MUCH more easily write WINDOWS programs, similar to what you have indicated you might like to do.
I think the GUI file you're refereing to is the IDE, which is a visual elaboration or derivation of the Win32Lib library, which allows you to click on various aspects of Windows program features, "controls", and place them directly into a program with very little coding required. In fact, there is in the IDE a CALENDAR control that you can just "put" into a program that will pretty much do what you want right out of the box. That is, controls like that have a built-in functionality without having to write any code to implement that functionality. Put the calandar control into a window in the IDE, run the resulting program created for you by the IDE, and you will see a calendar, with month/year selections, etc, without writing a single line of code!
Pretty spiffy, right?
Dan
