OpenEuphoria

RE: New win32lib and XML

• Posted by "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jan 05, 2004
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Euman [mailto:euman at bellsouth.net]
> Subject: Re: New win32lib and XML
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> Derek please have a look at SMEL....(written in euphoria)
> http://users.pandora.be/tommycarlier/eu

I already have. I was discussing SMEL with Tommy before he released it. In
the end, although he did adopt a couple of my suggestions, I decided not to
go with it because it was still too verbose, and didn't support nested
attributes. SMEL is a good alternative to XML but it is overkill for my
needs. I want to make Win32lib EASIER to use, not harder.

> RANT: I dont understand why no one (but me and a few) use .res files.
> Parsing .res files 16 or 32bit is easy and allows you to use many
> of the advanced IDE's out there...If an extension to .res file parsing
> was made to allow for things like color, bitmaps, control
> size if certain
> UI is used etc it would make more since to me.

Maybe you're right, but the extensions wouldn't be compatible with .res
anymore, and so if we are going that way, why not use a syntax that is more
suited to the task at hand.

My example didn't show that a LOT of reasonable defaults are used, and it
also supports relative positioning of controls.

> Otherwise, SMEL should be the alternatative to using XML.

Agreed, but I'm not advocating XML either.

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Derek