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Re: Question for Euman - viewer for email (msgs) in text format

• Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Oct 15, 2001
• 440 views

Hell, I dont know who your talking to here but, I'll give a shot at one or two
of the
questions and maybe ask a few before Im thru.'

Listviews in windows would work great to list To, From, Subject & date or
anyother
info for that fact.

Windows programming has been made somewhat simple in Euphoria.
If you grab a copy of Win32lib "I usually dont plug the library" but, it is a
good starting point for beginners to cut their teath
so to speak at windows programming. Just, dont look at the code
for this massive library and you'll be OK.

Win32lib also has the ability to make a RichEdit Controls that could possibly be
used to
save your text and view the messages later. This would require your ability to
write code
that can also create, save and retrieve the files in a manor compatible with the
GUI.
And several other things like database work to help out unless you want to sort
thru your
info each time you want to find something.  And on - and on - and on.

I personally do not have an editor written in win32lib or Euphoria API but, I do
know that is
very possible to achieve professional level editing useing Euphoria. If you have
the time and
the talent you can do just about anything you set your mind to. Once you start a
project, make
sure you finish it or, like me you'll have a million unfinished ideas lying
around.

I started a library "actually still working on it" that could have been
competition to Win32lib
but, I soon realised that my code looked about as confusing as Win32lib's and
that it would take
someone hundreds of hours to follow how I did something so I probably will never
release it.

This leads to the other side of programming in Euphoria. Keep your programs
simple and something
that you can recognise and comment, comment, comment you code....

Later,

Euman
euman at bellsouth.net

----- Original Message -----
From: <lakatzz at juno.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 00:55
Subject: Question for Euman - viewer for email (msgs) in text format


>
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:40:21 -0500
> euman at bellsouth.net writes:
>
> > I disagree with the no limits to what euphoria can do....
> > 1. We cant have Multiple threads in Windows.
> > Tit-for-tat, Euphoria still rules in my book!
>
> Ok Euman, let's see what you really know.................
>
> I save all my email from Euphoria that I am getting to
> "one" text file.  This is my way of saving msgs to keep the
> folders in my emailer pgm (Juno) from getting too big.  I
> then delete msgs (email) from my emailer pgm.  When folders
> in emailer pgm get too big, the .frm files get corrupt.
>
> When saving all the msgs to one text file I use "find"
> command in Windoz to try to locate subject matter I want to re-read.  I
> am not pleased with my method altho I have not
> found another way to save msgs.  I don't want alot of single files (msgs)
> but that all the msgs be in one large
> file.
>
> Using Euphoria programming language what & how would you
> configure a viewer to show & list the To, From, Subject,
> & date in a window similiar to the way my Windoz's emailer
> pgm does?  I need a "find" function in the viewer too.
> The viewer must beable to view large text files (over 1
> meg in size).
>
> Now could this be done with Euphoria's made for Dos?
> A pgm made for Dos will work in Linux too.  I have being
> thinking about switching to Linux but afraid of the learn-
> ing curve I must go thru.
>
> Lee
>
>
>