OpenEuphoria

wxEuphoria

• Posted by Matthew Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at YAHOO.COM> Feb 10, 2003
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I finally got wxWindows (v2.29)--as a DLL--working with Euphoria.  I've
ported the fractal demo that comes with the wxWindows source.  It's up on my
page:

http://www14.brinkster.com/matthewlewis/projects.html

There are 3 files:
wxEuphoria.zip  -- My source code
wx22_9d1.zip    -- DLL file 1
wx22_9d2.zip    -- DLL file 2

Unfortunately, Brinkster doesn't allow files greater than 1Mb (at least for
us cheapskates with the free accounts).  Also, my bandwidth is limited to
16Mb per day, so if you experience trouble, it may be that the limit has
been reached.  I split the DLL using PatRat's splitter utility.  In order to
get the DLL assembled, you'll need to unzip everything into a directory, and
then run install.ex.

I've included a copy of fptr.e with the code.  This new copy is required in
case others have the version that's been with EuCOM.  I've cleaned it up a
bit and added some things, made it easier to use.  I'll probably be
releasing it on its own here, soon.

But now I need to make some decisions, and ask for some help. :)  Jim Brown,
I think you volunteered for helping on the port to Linux, right. :)  Beyond
that, there are a lot of things to think about before the library gets
coded.  

I'm currently leaning towards doing things in a win32lib'ish manner, rather
than a wxWindows/C++ manner (which is how the demo is written), by which I
mean:

win32lib:
include win32lib.ew
-- create stuff
-- event handlers, etc
WinMain()

wxWindows:
include wxEuphoria.e
-- event handlers, etc
procedure init()
	-- create stuff
end procedure
WxMain() -- your init routine is called from here

David C, you probably have some thoughts about this.  In this respect, I
think wxBasic works sorta like win32lib (big surprise :).  Of course, there
will be lots of other details, like how to manage event handling, and,
obviously, making it all really cross platform.

Matt Lewis