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Re: Anyone here for a Windows Help Project?

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Mar 10, 2006
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> don cole wrote:
> > 
> > Al Getz wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello there,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I had started a Windows Help Project a while back.  What im wondering
> > > now is are there many people who program in Euphoria who could use
> > > a Help program/file that explains the more common Windows
> > > function calls in detail (the actual dll calls and how they translate
> > > to a Euphoria file)?
> > > It would be a rather large undertaking but would eventually contain 
> > > quite a bit of help for people who want to know how to program under
> > > Windows using raw Eu Windows code (like retv=c_func(xCreateWindow,...))
> > > and linking information too.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Al
> > > 
> > > 
> > > My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> > 
> > Hello Al,
> > 
> > I'll help you. What do you want me to do?
> > 
> > I downloaded your Help10 but it's an .exe file, so I can't do anything with
> > that. I can't make heads or tails out of it anyway.
> > 
> > I think you have XP, but in win2k if you go to start/help/index and start
> > typing
> > that's the way I would like to see a help file set up.
> > 
> > Thanks for the tip on WS_DLGFRAME I'm going to try it when I get a chance.
> > 
> > I've decided to forget about a schematic drawing program. I fix TVs and VCRs
> > and some Computers. But don't use schematics much anymore. Like for an older
> > computer power supply, you don't really need a schematic to figure out the 5
> > and 12 volt connection.
> > 
> > Don Cole
> 
> Hi there Don,
> 
> 
> Oh ok, so you want to work on a general Windows Help for Euphoria?
> What i was thinking was the help would show how to use raw Windows API
> in Euphoria, not a library, but would show how a library could start
> out perhaps.
> For example, the function CreateWindowEx(...) 'C' definition would be
> shown followed by the most conventional wrapping like:
>   global constant xCreateWindowEx=etc.
> but would also include some help with the parameters too, and how
> they translate to Euphoria.
> Sound interesting?
> 
> Oh you were talking about a schematic drawing program?
> I thought we were talking about a circuit "analysis" program,
> that looks at all the parts in the schematic and then does
> a transient, dc, or ac analysis, with a plot output window to
> show waveforms.
> I guess we could start with a drawing program first though.
> 
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"

Hello Al, 

I finally got Ubuntu installed (I had a bad CD drive) and I have a million
questions and problems with that. I'll email you a bitmap of my idea for the
drawing project.

Don Cole