Re: Constest Idea
- Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Nov 06, 2002
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Note that this doesnt cover Linux or FreeBSD users. Of course, most *nix graphics can only be done via external libraries (i.e. the X server (and assorted libraries built on top of Xlib), or SVGAlib for Linux). (It is possible for a program to do graphics on such a system w/o the libraries, but such a program would need direct access to the hardware and most likely have to be part asm (it'd certainly be part device-driver!).) Only ASCII graphics are guarrented to work across all platforms. jbrown Linux User:190064 Linux Machine:84163 PS How about some Win32 API gurus whip up a graphics.ew library for exw.exe (and maybe image.ew as well), while someone else (me??) creates a graphics.eu lib over apigtk.e ? Then we let the graphics.ew and graphics.eu libraries be accepted as equilivent to graphics.e for DOS. This would let us write DOS graphics programs in Eu and have it work across platforms. There might be problems with comparing speed, but benchmarking by platform should solve that problem. (Or, alternatively, a graphics benchmark program be run under all 3 libraries, and its results are used to "adjust" the speed of the programs in the contest.) jbrown On 0, rubis at fem.unicamp.br wrote: > > My suggestion: > > Two categories: windows and dos. > Both using only standard libraries from euphoria. > Limit in size (?) > > Two reasons for this: > 1- Stimulate beginners of euphoria to participate > 2- All of us learn a lot with simple and very well written codes. > > Rubens > > > > --