Re: New to Euphoria and GUI
Hi Ray,
You could be a great help to many other newcomers to Euphoria and Windows
GUI programming if you could spell out to us what is confusing about the
Win32Lib help, so it could be improved to help newbies better.
For instance:
Were you able to tell where to *begin* with the Win32Lib help documentation?
(I still think it would be helpful to have a single html help doc in the
main folder which would jump to the beginning of the help documentation
that's inside the Doc folder, since there's a lot of docs in there.)
If you were able to find the beginning of the help doc, then did you notice
the "double link" to "General Info", which shows a synopsis of Win32Lib,
including some of the fundamental GUI jargon? (The links in that synopsis
don't work right, because the main documentation is created directly from
comments in Win32Lib by a "MakeDoc.exw" program, and the synopsis is not a
part of the main library. But all the terms that show as links do have
separate sections in the main doc that you can go to.)
And did you notice the FAQ referenced in the main doc? It's incomplete, but
could maybe be a little helpful nonetheless.
Dan Moyer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Tomes" <rtomes at ihug.co.nz>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 5:01 PM
Subject: New to Euphoria and GUI
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> Greetings All
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> I am new to Euphoria and GUI programming, although an experienced=20
> programmer. I was looking around for a decent tool for programming=20
> because QBASIC limitations were annoying me and I wanted to write a=20
> couple of programs that would be used by a other people and so needed to=
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> look nice and be easy to learn to use.
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> I found Euphoria and have decided that this is really a great tool for=20
> what I want to do, and it is clear that there are lots of people doing=20
> many of the things I want to do with Euphoria, and this forum is very=20
> active. Great! I have downloaded about a hundred things already.
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> Clearly a number of people have put a great deal of effort into Win32Lib=
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> and many other tools available. However being inexperienced in GUI I=20
> cannot understand the jargon and the help information in Win32Lib.
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> The Encyclop=E6dia Euphoria is very useful for finding help on lots of=20
> stuff, but it doesn't answer my basic questions about GUI terminology.=20
> When I look up "create" it tells me that one of the fields is "flags"=20
> but there doesn't seem to be a list anywhere of the available flags.
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> Then I found EUwinGUI which is much simpler that Win32Lib but still does=
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> everything I want to do with a window (I think). Also, the Window=20
> Designer is an easy way to make nice looking stuff and to see the code=20
> and begin to learn the jargon from that. Well done Andrea Cini!
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> If anyone knows of a web site or DLable help file that gives a basic=20
> course in GUI terminology and the possible values for flags, options etc=
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> then I would like to know about that.
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> You can expect some questions from me in the near future. In fact there=
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> is one coming right up after this post 
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> Happy programming
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> Ray Tomes
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