OpenEuphoria

Re: Portable Window Library

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Apr 11, 2000
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Prasanta wrote:

> Can we use Microgui with EU?

No, not yet. There's currently no way to dynamically link to DOS libraries
in Euphoria. Perhaps at some point Robert might add such a feature. If
enough people bug Robert, he might be convinced to add an additional library
to Euphoria. At this point, MicroGUI is still too incomplete to be really
useful. If the GTK+ or FLTK wrappers are completed, it could be *really*
useful.

Another option is to link the library with Pete's PEU interpreter. For
example, he's already got a version of PEU that's linked to the excellent
Allegro library.

Another very cool library is SciTech's MGL library, at:

    http://www.scitechsoft.com/dp_mgl.html

The main downside of MGL was the immensely confusing license; it's since
been revised so that the library could probably be included in Euphoria.

Another disincentive against Robert linking to one of these libraries is
that it would make the graphics interface much more complex. At this point,
there's a fairly elegant mapping between pixel/get_pixel and sequences.
Adding a complex library would mean greatly increasing the graphics API,
which is currently just a handful of routines.

-- David Cuny