OpenEuphoria

Re: Display Server

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Dec 22, 2005
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Craig Welch wrote:
> 
> Al,
> 
> The more I use Display Server, the more I like it. With every program I 
> write now I use this for debugging. And I have a couple of functioning 
> programs that write normal output to this server.
> 
> I wonder if you still plan to provide some of the updates mooted a while 
> ago? These included:
> 
> - Colours (not so important to me)
> - Scrolling (very useful)
> - Pretty printing (very very useful)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Craig
> 
> 

Hi there Craig,

You're right in that those updates would be a nice improvement...
especially scrolling...which i needed myself too.  I'll have to
get back to this and at least add that functionality very soon.
I dont think colors will be too hard to add, but pretty printing
should already be supported via my own pretty printing routines
found in the archive.  Actually called "Pretty_Sequence", these
routines allow your code to create a pretty sequence and then send
it to Display Server or possibly a Rich Edit control or other Edit
control too.  In fact, now that you mention it, i put a note in
the description of Pretty Sequence in the archive that mentioned
the output can be sent to Display Server :)
There's also other options with Pretty Sequence that can change
the delimiters so that you can format a sequence into something
that looks like say a directory listing (without the '{' and '}'
characters normally found in a print of a sequence).  It's quite
versatile that way so you may find that useful to use with the
Display Server.


Take care,
Al

And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!

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