OpenEuphoria

Windows stuff...

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Sep 13, 2004
• 494 views

To program in windows using only the standard libraries is very time
consuming and annoying.
Excellent work has been done in 3rd party projects like win32lib and w32engine.
Some people find one or both of these restrictive, and so go off and
use a different system...

This means that programmers are using different windows libraries to
write their own code, and to convert a library to use a different
windows library is difficult, if not impossible.

What do you think about collaborating to produce a common core to
these windowing systems, that can be extended to produce a library
that caters to different needs?

For a start, one include file should have every windows API constant,
and be compatible across the board. Perhaps it should be included in
the euphoria installer as a standard include.

>From that, common procedures could be agreed upon. Some things are
common across all flavours of windows library - opening a dialog box
and getting a result, the concept of an event handler, low-level
routines like timers etc....
The internals of the procedures and functions as implemented by
windows library designers do not have to be the same, but their
abstract behaviour should be the same, or similar enough to make
compatibility much easier.

Comments?
-- 
MrTrick