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- Posted by Michael Sabal <mjs at OSA.ATT.NE.JP> May 30, 1998
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[Mendokusai] I've been having some trouble with NTT (Japan's domestic telephone = company), which has been very inconvenient for connecting to the = Internet. Since I can't check my email so often, I will have to leave = the list for a while. I'll still be checking developments on the newly = established thread page, so if you need to respond to something I've = posted, I'll still get it. Or if you need to contact me directly, the = best bet is to send a message from my homepage (address below). = Hopefully this problem will be fixed soon, but I doubt it. Can't stand = monopolies [Dialogs] I've been looking at the source for Win32Lib, and I think this might = work for dialogs: Set the modal flag to WS_DLGFRAME, set the parent = field to zero (why you can't declare it as a child is beyond me. I = never would've thought it w/o Dave's suggestion), and set some boolean = flags so the dialog isn't recreated if a user tries to change focus and = reactivate the dialog. Or, instead of setting flags, trap all focus = events to "lock" the dialog box. =20 [Modals] I'm not quite sure what you mean by a window being modal. Do you mean = that it looks like a separate window, or do you mean a locked or = unlocked window? [Hint for newbies (QBasic flavor)] The biggest thing that sets Euphoria apart from other languages is the = use of sequences. This means the old "DIM" statement in Basic is = vanquished. It also means you can't initialize a variable at the same = time you declare it. For example, "atom that =3D 4" is invalid. I need = two statements: "atom that" and "that =3D 4". This could take some = getting used to. Fixed length arrays are no good either. So if I want = to set a limit for a card game, it might look like this: constant NUMCARDS =3D 52 constant SUITES =3D {'h','d','c','s'} constant CARDS =3D {'2','3','4',...,'A'} -- you get the idea object deck deck =3D {} -- this MUST be initialized, or you can't add to it -- this is another trick: you MUSTN'T declare the variable used in a = "for" loop for a =3D 1 to 4 do -- the suites for b =3D 1 to 13 do -- the cards deck =3D append(deck,SUITES[a]&CARDS[b]) end for end for if length(deck) > NUMCARDS then -- because the values in the -- for loop are hard coded, this is unnecessary, except -- for example. abort(1) end if --OR-- if length(deck) > NUMCARDS then deck =3D deck[1..NUMCARDS] end if Anyway, catch you on the rebound. Michael J. Sabal http://home.att.ne.jp/gold/mjs/index.html