OpenEuphoria

Re: Jeremy Self

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jan 31, 2003
• 413 views

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:09:47 +1100, <Patrick.Barnes at transgrid.com.au> 
wrote:


>>>
>>> On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:54 pm, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Why isn't Win32Lib x-plat?!
>>>>
>>>> What is "x-plat"?
>>>
>>> cross-platform
>>>
>> Ha ha ha.
>>
>> My guess is that the name "win32" has something to do with that. It 
>> seems to imply "MS-Windows 32-bit" in my mind. Also, right from the 
>> outset, David Cuny and others, seemed to hard code Windows specific 
>> paradigms and literals into the library. It never seems to have been 
>> designed to be cross-platform and would now require a complete, ground- 
>> up, rewrite to get there - breaking just about all the code using it.
>>
>> The 'llama' product is one attempt at producing a cross-platform GUI for 
>> Euphoria.
>
>
> Well, would it be difficult to leave the paridigms and interface in 
> place, and write a giant 'wrapper' for xwindows or some similar thing?

Be my guest... 

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cheers,
Derek Parnell