Re: An Experiment
>Perhaps there is a better way?
Maybe the new version of Euphoria can ignore <..> html markups except inside
quotes.
Think about it, it will work.
And having an auto-format program bundled with Euphoria (in euphoria off
course) that removes & adds html format, tabs, spaces, comments, etc. Its
not hard to write, and a lot of customers would really appriciate such a
program to be bundled with euphoria, with documentation, etc.
Off course, the standard editor should (at least) know how to work with the
html color coding. It might even be preferrable to have an option in their
to 'format' the code (running that program).
I'm talking 'standard' with euphoria, because if only 3rd party editors and
programs (like David Cuny's excellent editor) offer such a thingie, it will
cause some problems with newcomers. Making more people aware of David Cuny's
editor can *really* increase the popularity of Euphoria. I do understand
Robert's logical choice for the simple and low-end ED which will also run
nicely on the slower machines and comes with far less complex code. (if you
look at EE.EX you first reaction would be: *thats a lot of code* not
considering the usability of every component of the GUI.
Yet, a GUI is also a crucial tool, that you will need for any program.
Robert should consider adding standard GUI include file, thats easy to use,
and a lot less OOP-ish. (a message box, open window, make window, make
button, and have an event () routine tell you what key was pressed, what
mouse action occured, or what button was pressed. (you first declare an
event) .. a sort of wait_event () routine, avoiding all the 'complex-to-use'
OO-approuches. Off course this last part of my message is a real stream of
thougts, it will do no harm trying to figure a way to add a simple to use
GUI to euphoria, and having a more 'heavier' editor that handles real
formats, with different font sizes, etc. with Euphoria. Or maybe just
something like this on the WIN32 front. Dont tell me you're not planning to
bundle some *real* win32 support with the next version of Euphoria, instead
of assuming every Euphoric user has net acces and time to find the 3rd
parties libraries you need to use for the most trivial things. Face it, the
Win32 part is Alpha stage if not less.
Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen
nieuwen at xs4all.nl
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