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Re: General Questions about Euphoria..exe file size minimum

• Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Oct 15, 2001
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The easiest way I know of to learn Euphoria is to actually read the
documentation that comes with it. If you dont read the docs you will
*NOT* know what we are talking about when you do ask for an answer.

Read the docs front to back atleast twice but not in all one sitting
practice very small step programs and pay special attention to 
sequences as these are Euphoria's main selling point (they make
for easy programming)

Dont get worried if you happen to look at Win32lib's code
or one of the graphics libraries like NEIL, most of the hard
stuff is already completed and there should be no need to look at
anything but the documentation on how to use the library (in most
cases)

for awhile, sit back, take your time and try to absorb as much info on
Euphoria as possible without overloading the ole-noodle.
Dont get frustrated when you dont know or cant find an answer,
sometimes there just isnt an answer to be had and you must drop back
and punt so to speak.

answering your question again:

 .png files can not be used with euphoria at this time, no-one I know of
has written a wrapper "code" to use this file format.

jpeg, gif, bmp and maybe one or two other image formats exist for use
with Euphoria. Problem is that some of the image formats contain
proprietary code and require a liscense to use the format this is why
you dont see any code to use them. Take my word for it, there is more than
enough code to display, manipulate, animate, etc, images already on the
user-contrib site that you'll be buisy for atleast a year learning from them.

Euman
euman at bellsouth.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lakatzz at juno.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 06:11
Subject: General Questions about Euphoria..exe file size minimum


> 
> Let's start over here.  I am interested in programming & 
> have for many years.  
> 
> Now Euphoria claims it is easy to create & learn how to 
> create programs.  I am willing to learn.
> 
> I have read some of the introduction to Euphoria & have 
> been playing with several pgms I have d/led.  I kind of 
> like the idea I have the "choice" to edit, hack, whatever 
> you want to call it, in order to make pgm do what I want 
> it to do.  On substituting bmp for png, I knew I had to convert the image
> files first, then I thought all I had
> to do was edit the .eu program file.  Ok I was wrong.  
> That is why I joined this mailing list was to find out 
> what Euphoria is all about.  So far I see the same thing, updates to alot
> of what I call plugin.  One pgm I was running worked with Win32Lib file
> but another pgm would 
> not.  It is confusing to me & I am sure alot of others, 
> all these versions out there.
> 
> Something I wanted to know today was:
> 
> 1.]  When compiling files to a .exe file, what is the minimun .exe would
> be?  Say my .eu file is 10,000 bytes,
> what would the .exe file size be?
> 
> In away I would hate to compile pgm as it would be easier
> to change it uncompiled.  My biggest problem with all this
> is, there are so many pgm files to keep up with.  Altho without "that"
> version pgm file, the pgm itself probably 
> would not work.  Compiled into one pgm file (.exe) compiled
> pgm would work every time regardless if I upgraded a pgm 
> file.  Example:  Win32Lib pgm file.
> 
> 2.]  All these what I call plugins, dll.e as a example
> here, don't they take up alot of RAM memory in general as they are all
> loaded into memory when I turn on pc?
> 
> When I installed Euphoria just AFEW DAYS AGO now, I notice
> instructions wanted Euphoria to be in path statement.
> Win9x takes up alot of RAM memory.  I hesitated on having 
> any more take up memory but am trying it out for the time 
> being till I find something else does not want to work.
> 
> 3.]  Does one really save hard drive space by leaving files
> uncompress?  
> 
> 4.] What about when a pgm file is upgraded (Win32Lib), does 
> this mean I have to edit say my blackjack pgm file (bj.eu)
> in order to get my blackjack pgm file to work again?
> 
> 5.] What are some of the limitations of Euphoria program-
> ming language?
> 
> Thank you for replying in advance & hope someone out there
> understands....YES I AM A NEWIE BUT SO WERE YOU AT ONE 
> TIME.
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
>