OpenEuphoria

Hang on just a second!

• Posted by paravantis at otenet.gr Jul 03, 2001
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> Just last week someone asked how to make RichEdit
> accept files larger than 65k and I replied with
> EM_EXLIMITTEXT which can be found in the SDK.
>
> Sure the person that needed this info didnt look before
> he/she asked the question. Am I to assume that to drive the
> car you mentioned earlier doesnt require we take a road test
> first or learn how to start the engine?
>
> True, knowing the engine and metalurgy isnt/shouldnt be
> required to drive the car but isnt that the same as MS
> doing the work and making the DLL's that we use to API program?
>
> After all, we have the keys to this car in their SDK all
> we have to do now is turn the key to start the engine........

Since I happen to be the individual who could not figure out how to expand a
RichEdit control beyond 64 Kb, I feel I should now contribute a bit of my
thoughts to the fray.

Perhaps Euman (and many other worthly persons) knows his way around the SDK
documentation including details on EM_LIMITTEXT and how this differs from
EM_EXLIMITTEXT and so forth. The thing is, I don't (I only found out about
the Win32.hlp file a week ago and about the SDK documentation a few days
ago) and I am not inclined to find out because I do not have the time -- for
me programming is a tool NOT a full time occupation. If using Euphoria
presented pretty much the same formidable learning curve that one is faced
with when attempting to program the Windows API with C, I would simply opt
for another language.

For me (an academic teacher), Euphoria's worth is foremostly attibuted to
Win32Lib and secondarily to its superb yet simple data types. IF WIN32LIB
DID NOT EXIST I WOULD HAVE NOT PURCHASED EUPHORIA, PERIOD. It is true though
that I would have liked to have had a 'perfect' Win32Lib from the outset. In
the last year or so, Win32Lib has improved but, if I may say so without
belittling in the slightest the amazing team that put it together, not so
dramatically as to elevate Euphoria to a mature language for creating
Windows applications.

In fact, this is I think may be an important point for RDS: perhaps the
author of Euphoria could have reached an agreement with the Win32Lib with
the objective of facilitating and expediting the production of a
professional Win32Lib that would be included in the Euphoria package.

Respectfully to all parties in this discussion,
John Paravantis
University of Piraeus
Greece