OpenEuphoria

Re: Leave DOS?!

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Feb 22, 2006
• 413 views

Ron Weidner wrote:
> 
> 
> > show me some code, a circle moving fast from left to
> > right
> > 
> 
> Sounds to me like you want Allegro or SDL.  Both exist
> in the archives and I believe I read a few days ago
> that EuAllegro has a new maintainer.
> 
> But ck is right, if you want to write GUI apps,
> (buttons, text boxes, tabs, etc) you should consider
> wxEuphoria.
> 
> Here watch this...
> 
> According to
> <a
> href="http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp">http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp</a>
> 
> 90% of web surfers are using windows.  Ok... that's a
> huge number.  I'm going to guess that if you add up
> all the home computers in the US + all the office
> computers in the US and include all the laptops in the
> US, you might be looking at a number like 1 billion. 
> 10% of those computers are NOT running windows.  So,
> that's about 100,000,000 computers (or potential
> customers)in the US not using windows.  Now multiply
> that number by 5 for England, Germany, Japan, China,
> Korea, and other industrial countries and you can see
> that number jump to 500,000,000 quickly.  I might be
> _under_ guessing the exact number of non windows
> computers world wide.
> 
> So while you are developing software for an already
> saturated windows market, consider how many potential
> customers (at least 1/2 Billion) you could have if you
> had just tried to use the free, open source, and
> easier to use, programming tool, wxEuphoris.
> 
> 
> --
> Ronald Weidner
> <a href="http://www.techport80.com">http://www.techport80.com</a>
> PHP Software developer for hire.
> 
> 
Leave DOS!!!