OpenEuphoria

Re: A Portable API for Euphoria

• Posted by Daniel Berstein <danielberstein at USA.NET> Apr 03, 1998
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>I've been working on a port of Win32Lib to DOS. I've got most of the
>graphic primitives working, and can display most of the widgets that
>I need - text, buttons, check boxes and the like. Now I have to add
>functionality to the program.


Excellent! The library could be so smart that using the platform() function
automatically knows wich "version" of the routines to load. Hmmm... thinking
it twice, it won't work...  you need exw for win32, but it won't run on old
DOS :(

I don't know about Tcl/Tk, so no opinion.

>Here's a screen shot of the kind of things that it can currently draw:


Where?

>I've been thinking about cross-platform issues, in the hope that some
>day in the near future Robert ports Euphoria to Linux and the Mac. It

After Irv's experiments on Euphoria CGI, a Linux port would be quite more
usefu, and it's still x86 platform... faster to develop perhaps. A Mac port
would give a wider extension to the language, but who of us will develop for
Mac? It would be like starting from zero.
Maybe an Alpha (NT) port will help follow the Win32 developing line.


BTW David, I bought (is that how you spell it?) today Petzold's book. I
won't bother you for some time while I read it.

Regards,
    Daniel Berstein.