OpenEuphoria

Re: Win32Lib or wxEuphoria

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gm?il.?om> Dec 10, 2007
• 491 views

Mike777 wrote:
> 
> For some reason, when I initially searched this forum, I didn't find the
> messages
> comparing Win32Lib and wxEuphoria. 
> 
> Based on what I've read, with an application that is intended solely for
> Windows
> machines, sticking with Win32Lib seems to make the most sense.
> 
> So I'll change my question a bit: is there any reason to re-visit that issue
> based on the latest incarnation of wxEuphoria (0.11) or the underlying new
> version
> of wxWidgets (2.8)?

I'll add my biased view (although I've been a developer on both libraries).

There are some additional features in wxEuphoria, such as regular expressions,
built in sizers--there is a 3rd party lib for use with win32lib, but in 
my experience, the wxWidgets sizers are superior.  There are probably other
things, some of which might be important for your project.  

There is still a lot of wxWidgets functionality that wxEuphoria hasn't tapped 
yet.  It's usually a matter of adding some wrappers to wxEuphoria, which is
actually pretty simple these days (assuming there's nothing too complicated
going on).

Perhaps the biggest advantage is that wxEuphoria supports unicode.  v0.12
(probably to come out soon) added some capabilities to convert between 
UTF8 and the native format (UTF16, I believe) used by wxWidgets.

Matt