Re: Announcing Damien v0.01a -- The IDE for VEL
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From: Ad Rienks <kwibus at ZONNET.NL>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Announcing Damien v0.01a -- The IDE for VEL
> Hi Gary,
>
> WOW! Damien is beautiful, well worth the waiting for it! Before I
downloaded
> it, I first read the text on your website, and I thought: "Maybe a bit
> overdone, the comparisons with Delphi and VB IDE's". But, as far as I can
> see now, after maybe 15 minutes, Damien totally lives up to the
expectations
> for an alpha/beta release.
> I think you're lucky that you didn't give up on VEL, when the reception
> wasn't what you expected it to be. Now this product has to have a better
> reception, I'm quite sure of that!
>
> But, after the cheering, there always is a moment of contemplation, and
then
> you have to go back to the programming dungeon to get some bugs out and
new
> features in. Well, I found some (minor) bugs, here they are:
>
> - You forgot to put vel005.e in the zip file.
> - The editor doesn't accept TAB keys.
> - When I ran a test program, all controls of the IDE disappeared, as they
> should, except for the Form. I still was there in the background, only
> unclickable and unclosable.
> - The main form doesn't have the CENTERED attribute in the object
inspector.
>
> I'm sure these are minor bugs/omissions, that can be worked out quite
> easily. But you surely deserve a big compliment for this excellent piece
of
> software.
>
> Keep up the good work!
>
> Ad Rienks
>
> ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> Van: Gary Dumer <dumer9354 at MY-DEJA.COM>
> Aan: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Verzonden: dinsdag 9 november 1999 16:19
> Onderwerp: Announcing Damien v0.01a -- The IDE for VEL
>
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Today I'm announcing the first alpha release of Damien version 0.01a.
> > Damien is an IDE for developing GUI programs using the Visual Euphoria
> > Library (VEL) and The Euphoria programming language. This software may
be
> > downloaded from my WEB site at:
> >
> > http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/atl/t/d/tdwalsh/damien.htm
> >
> > While this is truely an alpha release and may be somewhat buggy at
times,
> > it can also be quite useful in producing fairly sophistocated GUI
> > applications. It contains many advanced features, although some features
> > are not yet implemented. By nature I'm a perfectionist and quite
reluctant
> > to release anything that I don't feel is at a high level, but I realized
> > that to wait for pefection with this very complicated project, it would
> > never get released. So here it is... I hope you will try it and enjoy
the
> > experience!!!
> >
> > Happy programming... Gary.
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