OpenEuphoria

Re: VCL

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Feb 21, 1999
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Daniel Berstein wrote:

>VCL is the Visual Component Library. It a collection of native code
>components that encapsulate (each) a visual interface element ( = control
>or gadget). It's much simpler to just include a "button" component in your
>application than to explicitly creating/registering the window class and
>then create it and make a wndproc. A clear interface is required, in
>essence you neee OO to achieve this, but with some tricky use of routine
>id's we should be able to by-pass this obstacle.

Can you point to some reference which gives more details?

>In general we'll need a generic library that act as a "middle-ware" between
>the app and the underlaying components implementation. Win32lib is on the
>way, but it's difficult to customize it. The component model enables third
>parties to develop their own extension based on a common and well known
>interface. A nice component for Euphoria would be a grid ;)

Sounds a little bit like WinMan. *sniff* 

Now that I have some of the graphic routines working in Win32Lib, I could
probably get around to emulating controls. Once a "generic" user defined
control is up and running, people could write custom controls *in* Win32Lib,
such as grids. But not for a while.

-- David Cuny