OpenEuphoria

Re: Standard toolkit

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at gmail.com> Jul 02, 2005
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Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:35:22 -0700, Jason Gade
> <guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Can anyone tell me what (non-RDS) library files besides Win32Lib that they use
>>regularly in their projects?
>>I'm mostly asking about utility functions, not graphics libraries and such.  
> 
> That would be arwen you are not asking about then )
> 
> 
>>Stuff like print.e, sprint.e, tk_*.e, etc.  Include your own libraries 
>>that you may not have released to the archive.
> 
> The main ones for me are:
> syswait
> ppp
> ipc (though that is getting less used by me, personally)
> 
> I also use reg.ew (by Davi Tassinari de Figueiredo), though
> I would prefer a read-only subset (ie just tell me what is the 
> associated editor/browser/email client, etc)
> 
> They are all in the archive.
> 
> There is other stuff, like min, max, abs, which I tend to just 
> copy, because I don't have a trusted, slimline, source.
> I also have at least four versions (each) of upper and lower,
> common memory (re-) allocation, string, stringify, Abort (erm
> make that 30+ versions),  Focus (one good idea on that one), 
> database.e wrappers, ..... 
> 
> Regards,
> Pete

I haven't looked much at Arwen.  Is it a good example of a library?  I 
mean just looking at how the API is exposed to the user and how the 
functions are written.  Can the code be used as an example of how to 
write *any* library?

Arwen is Windows-specific, isn't it?

Just wondering because if a set of libraries is recommended as a 
standard "user toolkit" it should be cross-platform.  That's why I was 
thinking that wxEuphoria would be a good recommendation for 
gui/networking toolkit.  I know that Win32Lib is much more mature but it 
is Windows-specific (for now).  I still think that it is probably a good 
example of how a library *should* be written but I could be wrong since 
I haven't examined it extensively either.

As per Christian Cuvier's suggestion I am kind of surveying what kind of 
library routines are currently used by programmers in Euphoria.  I think 
that is a good start towards a user toolkit/recommended set of add-on 
routines that everyone should have available.
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