OpenEuphoria

Re: Win32Lib IDE

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Oct 22, 1999
• 835 views

----- Original Message -----
From: David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Win32Lib IDE


> Irv Mullins wrote:
>
> > 1. It would be nice to have a way to include pre-written code into a
> > project.
>
> Placing an 'include' statement into the [general] area is the best way to
do
> this.

Maybe I didn't express myself clearly (it was very early morning when
 I wrote that)

I wasn't thinking of general euphoria routines, but instead being able to
insert,
the complete prj code for a pre-designed window into the prj file from the
IDE menu. It's possible now by cutting and pasting in a text editor, but it
would be nicer to have that as a function of the IDE. We could build
programs
by selecting various "modules" or "units" - whatever - and adding them to
our project.

Even better would be a way for the IDE to find and include specified .prj
files at the
time it builds the .exw file. That would keep the prj file sizes manageable.
You might
want to use a different extension to denote these as modules.

> >2. Following along the same lines, have you thought about how to
> >implement user-written components?

Everything right now is a "window" but I don't see that it needs to remain
that
way. Using the same approach as mentioned above, it should be possible to
build, add, and use other user-provided objects such as a grid, tabbed
notebook,
progress bar, calendar, directory listbox, etc.....

Wouldn't it be better if other people could build, test, and provide these
useful extras? Building them into the IDE would seem to be an never-ending
task.

Regards,
Irv