OpenEuphoria

text_gui

• Posted by David Cuny <HW1.DCUNY at HW1.CAHWNET.GOV> Jan 29, 1997
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*** Reply to note of 01/28/97 23:04
thanks for the compliment. i intentionally left that "alt" feature out,
figuring it wasn't that important and could be added later. i see your point
about limited dexterity, though. i'll put it a bit higher on the to-do list.

the program was *supposed* to be a shell to show off the toolkit features,
BUT... i took a look at my old multi-line edit code that I thought was
broken beyond repair, and (much to my suprise) got it limping along again.
the MLE is *much* more complicated than any of the other controls, and there
are still a lot of things that are broken/not yet implemented. i'll try to
get it into shape and add it to the demo (within a week, perhaps).

i initially put all these tools together over a year ago when i found 'ed'
too irritating - i'd press alt+f, or f3 and irritating things would happen.
so i took Robert's advice and tried to re-write the editor. mid-way through
i decided that if i needed to write my own editor just to use a language, i
needed to find another language. i came back to Euphoria from ABC after
after hitting the memory limit wall, and decided to dust off the toolkit when
(much to my suprise) i found the code still sitting in my drive. that's taken
a couple of weeks just to make it presentable. ick!

i'm interested in knowing how i can change the toolkit so it is most useful
for people. if anyone has any opinions, let me know.

thanks.

-- david cuny