Euphoria / Win32Lib / IDE
Greetings ladies and gentlemen.
I've been reading this list for several months now and have benefited
tremendously from the insights and practical advice shared. I couldn't
be more pleased with this remarkably active and generous user community.
I would like to comment on the recent thread "Accessing Win API" from
the point of view of the new business user, who's primary interest is
solving real-world business problems with custom windows applications..
As a business person, I've traditionally had fairly limited options when
I needed application software. I could pay the hooded gurus at my local
development company, or compromise on my requirement to use some
off-the-shelf solution. About a year and a half ago, I decided that I
wasn't happy with either of those answers. I launched out on a
frustrating and expensive journey to become able to devlelop my own
software. I have installed on this computer as I post this: Visual Basic
6.0; Visual FoxPro; Delphi; a number of shareware Basic dialects, and
two or three windows scripting languages. In every case, I found
something about the solution either too difficult to master (no, I'm not
the shiniest coin in the fountain), or not well suited to what I wanted
to do. On a hunch, I emailed David Cuny asking his advice. Euphoria was
one of the solutions he recommended. I downloaded it, went through some
of the tutorials in the archive, downloaded and began to understand
Win32Lib and Judith's IDE.
I couldn't be more delighted. It has seemed on more than one occasion
that these tools were developed specifically with folks like me in mind.
They are well documented (better than the brand names), relatively easy
to use, and offer a remarkable support resource in both samples and this
user community.
I share this rather long-winded story to provide a context for my belief
that while the turbo techno-weenies out there may in fact be correct
about the criticisms of Win32Lib, for the guy like me, it is pure gold.
Further, I think I represent a growing number of folks who are out there
now looking for resources to develop their own software. Inefficiencies
notwithstanding, Win32Lib offers me a GREAT deal more that it costs. I'm
grateful for it, and the wonderful folks who make it possible.
J. Russell Webb
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