OpenEuphoria

Re: New features

• Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jul 20, 1998
• 485 views

Peter Blue wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Here are some new features I would like to see in Euphoria DOS32 :-
>
> 1. Serial I/O.
> 2. True / High Colour.
> 3. I/O ports. Handy for writing sound card stuff.
> 4. Event Handling like QuickBasic or PowerBasic. eg ON-TIMER, ON-KEY,
> ON-MOUSE or even ON-SERIAL
>
Well thought-out points. I was going to suggest the following
constructs:

  at({10:00,2:00,4:00},DrinkDrPepper) -- set timer watchdog to call
routine
  on mouse | keypress | com1 do SomeRoutine -- interrupt by input device
activity
  when (expr) do SomeRoutine -- watch a variable for some condition, but
don't
                             -- abort the program, just do "SomeRoutine"
which
                             -- could perhaps fix the condition.

There are a lot of programs that could benefit from these.

Regards,
Irv