Re: Win32 And Euphoria
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Apr 24, 2010
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Can anyone tell me the best way to get acquainted with using win32 with euphoria. it seems msdn is near cryptic.:(
Yeah, you'll want to stay away from there at first. There are basically two popular options:
Disclaimer: wxEuphoria is my project, and I used to maintain Win32Lib.
Win32lib might be a better choice when starting out, since it's simply a set of euphoria include files. wxEuphoria is a wrapper for wxWidgets, which comes with a dll. Coding is fairly similar for both.
The advantages for wxEuphoria are that it has some controls that aren't available through win32lib, like its grid control, and built in automatic sizing and positioning of controls. It's also cross platform (though that doesn't sound like what you're looking for).
Win32lib has a larger user base, and there are other add on libraries that fill in some of the gaps between it and wxEuphoria. Since it's all euphoria code (that wraps the Win32 API), it's easier to distribute your programs, since you wouldn't have to ship any dlls.
Matt
