OpenEuphoria

RE: Euphoria's Future?

• Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at ix.net.au> Nov 15, 2001
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Hi Jerry,

I "was" playing with a GUI toolkit called FLTK (www.fltk.org) that 
I have partially working under Euphoria Win32.
I attempted it under Linux but had trouble building a shared 
library. (It should be possible to get it to work though!!!)

It was turning out to be a fair amount of work so I decided 
"why don't I just try learning C++" ... and I have started doing that
and am getting into the world of OO programming.

For anyone interested ... just get a good C++ book (or download one),
some free time, a free C++ compiler and start reading.
The basics are fairly simple and all of a sudden you can make fair
sized programs with not as much effort as you might have thought.
An added benefit is that it might be of benefit in furthur (or 
current) employement!

Euphoria does lack flexibility in interfacing with libraries built
with other languages (C and C++ primarily).
If this could be simplified it would be a MAJOR improvement.

Jerry ... sine you have done some work of gtk.e you should consider
using standard C to re-write your program. It would then (with I 
don't know how much modification) work on all platforms that GTK 
supports.  How portable is ANSI C???

... Just some thoughts 


Ray Smith
http;//www.geocities.com/ray_223

 
>   Here's my excuse to bring up the subject of gtk.e, a library started by
> David Cuny but not finished.  This library is (I guess) mainly for the
> linux world but is (I guess) supposed to be cross-platform.
> 
>   Is there any chance that someone could be motorvated to do some more
> work on it?  Even if it is not completed, more work on it would help
> greatly to do projects with it.
> 
>   I was tentatively planning to re-do and/or translate my program DMAK
> (Diet Monger @$$ Kicker) for the linux world.  ( According to a search 
> on 
> freshmeat they are kinduv deficient in nutrient programs. )  But there 
> is
> not enough stuff in gtk.e to make DMAK using gtk.e.  For example I can
> use addItem to put items in a list box, but I can't remove items. 
> 
>   Besides my own little personal goals, making gtk.e more complete would
> probably significantly expand Euphoria into the linux world.
> 
> 
>        Jerry Story
> 
>