Re: libui: a portable GUI library for C
- Posted by andi49 Jun 20, 2016
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Dear _tom,
thank you
your posting exactly describes why Euphoria will be a hobby language forever.
No problem, i like it this way. But:
Consider you have a customer (only one, not one hundred).
You write program and you have to support this program for about 2-3 years! Nothing special, just a bread and butter job.
What your customer basiclly wants:
doumentation, source code (maybe} and a stable plattform (maybe he wants to hire a new programer later).
What do yo have to offer? euIUP allready unsupported,iup4eu pre-release BETA state (not my words),EuIup completly untested.
Euphoria 4.0.5 not updated since 2012.
And for sure now, libui, completely unstable fresh and cool.
That's a base that is really hard to sell!
Hope you understand my words
Andreas
For Euphoria there are now three IUP wrappers:
- euIUP (original no longer developed but still works)
- iup4eu ( complete and working )
- EuIup (recent, compact version and working )
You can also add Phix which has an Iup wrapper.
The documentation that comes with IUP applies to all of the wrappers.
Therefore, IUP with Euphoria is working and usable.
To make IUP better some improved documentation would be needed. For this I am sorry, but I am still working on this.
I believe that IUP with Euphoria has a strong place as a multi-platform gui. A multi-platform gui is the most convenient as a starting point when presenting Euphoria to new programmers.
But, is a multi-platform gui the answer to what users actually want? I am beginning to suspect that a native gui for each operating system is what users really want because there are no extra libraries that must be installed.
Now libui makes things more interesting. A clean, fresh, and portable gui could be the better solution.
_tom
