OpenEuphoria

Re: HERETICS UNITE!

• Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET> Jan 21, 2001
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Thomas (aka Paul, & Liona):

1) Win32Lib is a *library* of routines intended to make programming for the
32 bit versions of Windows (Win95 & 98 & ...?) easier.  Euphoria's "exw.exe"
interpreter does allow you to make programs for Windows, but with a good
deal of difficulty; using Win32Lib makes it much easier to do so. A program
made with Win32Lib uses the "exw.exe" interpreter, but "includes" the
Win32Lib routines, so you can call any of them from within your program.
For instance, you can create & open windows easily, you can create &
populate list boxes, position & size push-buttons, etc.

2)  Graphic-wise, the advantage is that many controls like list boxes, push
buttons, etc are wrapped and available in Win32Lib; I suspect that for
graphics heavy applications like games, windows is a dis-advantage?

Dan Moyer


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Kerslake" <paulk at UNISERVE.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 6:35 PM
Subject: HERETICS UNITE!


Well, that's it. I've gone Win32. I figured DOS programming is about 7 years
obsolete. SOoooooooooooo:

1) What's win32lib? win is Windows..............32?   lib?
2) What advantages are there to windows programming graphics-wise?


----------/\======thomas