Re: Euphoria as a Rapid Deployment language?
On 29 Jan 2001, at 15:43, Mike The Spike wrote:
> PS. I know that in Linux and Win32 you can call Eu
> code from C programs (DLLs) using callbacks, but what
> about DOS32 then? And future supported platforms?
<rambling>
If we could easily write device drivers in Eu, that would help some, or use the
redirector
interface in dos, which can be plugged into and out of at any time. How would
this
help? cause the code could be called by any running app written in any language,
and
it becomes a native system call, without re-compiling the OS. Sneakily, you'd
"read"
or "write" to a dos device, rather than a windoze DLL "call". Different
"applications" can
be accessed by using different "directories" in the device, and could maybe even
be
shared across a LAN. Writing TSR's in dos solves many problems that can't be
solved
in a typical program on the plain vanilla dos OS, especially those TSR's linked
into the
timer ints for time-sliced background multitasking.
Once most of my code gets done and modularized, i'd like to port each module to
a
dos tsr, so it is available to all the apps, running as a background process in
dos as
required. I could do intelligent serial port writes, coordinated across
applications,
easily by writing to "Z:\serial.txt", for instance, with the tsr grabbing the
write to that
"file" and processing it properly so all the applications can't interfere with
each other,,
or other stuff.... or whatever, etc.... plug in some new code into the
redirector, and
exec it,, just like dynamic variable execution.....
Kat,
distracted by that $%#^ ball of string again....
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