Re: DOS Window Manager
At 05:15 PM 4/14/98 -0700, sombody wrote:
>> who is caring about DOS nowadays?
>
>Most Euphoria programmers, I suspect. Or they never would >have started
using Euphoria in the first place.
>But I'll also guess that most of them don't want a GUI toolkit
Right, and wrong. There are plenty of little and not-so-little
apps that I would write in Euphoria if I had a stable GUI
availble. I do have a text-mode library with all the usual
suspects (menus, listboxes, edit controls, etc) which I
wrote in Pascal years ago to support my programming
(for dollars) efforts. I still use that, but I would rather
use Euphoria.
>> I'd would rather spend time in improving Tk (or CDE, etc).
>If Robert elects to include a cross-platform livrary such as Tk >into
Euphoria, I certainly won't continue working on this.
Tk looks good, and it is cross-platform, with a c function
call interface. That wouldn't be too hard to patch in,
would it? There are a LOT of calls, however...
On the other hand, it might be best just to write a GUI in
Euphoria. I have been working on a windoz lookalike,
in pure Euphoria, just to see if it can be done.
So far, I have movable 3D windows, Borland style
pushbuttons (that "recess" when clicked), bitmap buttons, radiobuttons,
checkboxes, labels, text entry, and bitmap decorations working. At 166 mhz,
Euphoria displays up
to 5 or 6 windows instantly.
The advantage I see to using Euphoria is this:
we could easily write our own controls, for example,
new gadgets to control machinery in a client's factory.
By keeping this as object-oriented as possible, each
new gadget I create now takes only 40 - 100 lines of code.
Irv
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