OpenEuphoria

Re: opening a window

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at y?hoo.co?> Nov 16, 2007
• 520 views

Kat wrote:
> 
> 
> I's mind boggling 
> that i am still 
> told in #Euphoria 
> on irc that i 
> cannot use Euphoria 
> to open a window 
> that has the 
> similar
> look&feel of 
> Explorer.
> When i ask,
> i am told over and over 
> that i must use 
> C to call win32api functions.
> To which my reply is
> "i'll use mirc instead".
> 
> How is it that
> after 10 years of 
> development,
> win32lib is unable
> to open a window
> that somewhat resembles
> windows Explorer,
> that i can populate with
> text of my choosing? 
> And has the mouse point-
> click handling so i can 
> get user interaction?
> 
> Kat

I didn't know that you couldn't do it -- I've never tried. There are about a
dozen or so widgets that you have to create and populate and manage to do that.

That's one reason why I don't do gui programming. Or if I do want to do gui type
stuff I stick to html/javascript.

Not that I know how to create a window like that in javascript. It would
probably be at least as difficult as in Euphoria.

--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare

j.