OpenEuphoria

Re: opening a window

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo??om> Nov 16, 2007
• 532 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

Okay, I know this isn't /exactly/ what you're looking for, but:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/effm2.zip
Euphoria Free File Manager. I've never used it or looked at the code, but the
description says it fulfills some of your requirements.

Unfortunately it uses Windows directly and not one of the various libraries.

--
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.