OpenEuphoria

Re: Damien Version 0.05a -- New Upgrade

• Posted by Kat <KSMiTH at PELL.NET> Nov 21, 1999
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----- Original Message -----
From: Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: Damien Version 0.05a -- New Upgrade


> From: Everett Williams <rett at GVTC.COM>
> Subject: Re: Damien Version 0.05a -- New Upgrade
>
>
> > Gary Dumer  wrote:
> >
> > >While I certainly admit that writing the graphical controls using only
> > >Euphoria is a daunting task... I surely DON'T agree that writing the
IDE
> is
> > >any easier for David than it is for me. After all, Damien is also
written
> > >entirely in Euphoria, using VEL as the graphical tool, just as David
uses
> > >Win32Lib as his tool.
> >
> > And which one did the priest bless? I think that the difference here is
> only
> > that of writing to a "native" interface not requiring any non-Euphoria
> > deliverables.
> <snip>
> > Both efforts are outstanding pieces of work that can only
> > broaden the use of Euphoria. The existence of a powerful IDE of whatever
> > heritage is one of those preconditions for the real growth of Euphoria
use
> > in the business community. My thanks to anyone willing to attempt such
> > a herculean task.
>
> I certainly agree, and appreciate anyone's effort in this direction.
> I must point out, however, a major difference between the two approaches
> that affects the user:
> Dave's code (Win32Lib) is written in Euphoria. When a program bombs, I get
> an ex.err file describing the problem. If it's my code, fine. If the
problem
> lies in Dave's code, I can still find and fix it. Vel errors tend to be
the
> altogether meaningless Windows error: Access Violation at 4C249592 caused
by
> win32.dll attempt to write to 003300CF  (or whatever). Fixing these is
> beyond my ability.

That's a windoze error, unless someone has locked some memory that windoze
doesn't know about,, or they *think* they locked the memory. Either way, it
could still be in the Eu portion of the code. Both approaches rely on
windoze calls.

Kat