OpenEuphoria

Re: Win32Lib, wxEuphoria or Arwen

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agriculture?go?v.fr> Dec 11, 2007
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Mike wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> I developed Arwen for speed so wasn't too concerned that it is not very
> feature
> rich. However, Pete Lomax enhanced it even more and bundles a fork of it with
> Edita.
> That could have what you mention below so I wouldn't right Arwen off entirely
> just
> yet.. too bad about not having a GUI form developer though 
> 

win32lib appears to be rich. Part of it actually comes from putting various
wrappers around the same thing in different ways, which may be more convenient
for users who don't know how Windows works under the hood. Geeks would call it
code bloat. Arwen needs less of these features because it is simply more low
level. You need to know Windows more to use it, but are less bothered by code
which is only convenient.

However, things like the event or form systems are, I believe, real features in
win32lib, and they make it more effective.

CChris

> Another tool you may consider using is Orac. If your project is REALLY big and
> you
> need to write lots 'n lots of modules and you DON'T want to spend ANY time
> rearranging
> the include order of files just to get the thing to compile properly, then,
> you may
> find Orac very helpful. OTOH, once you start using it, there's no going back..

Seconded.

> 
> "take the blue pill and believe whatever you want to later, or take the red
> one and
> see just how deep the rabbit warren goes.."
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> Mike777 wrote:
> > 
> > Well, obviously I meant Win32Lib or wxEuphoria, but it appears that Arwen
> > has
> > no built in capability for treeviews or for "fancy" listviews.  Both of
> > which
> > are imperative for my project, so I think Arwen won't cut it for me.  Shame,
> > though, because I have familiarity with windows' resource files and the way
> > that Arwen implements its structure is very familiar to me.
> > 
> > Oh, well.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Mike

CChris