OpenEuphoria

Re: contributions & windows

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jun 28, 2004
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eel picton wrote:

> anyway... i've had a good look at the contributions page... most of the
> utilities seemed
> a bit out of my beginners depth... but i was interested in the small amusement
> programs
> like 'mhands' and 'micro' just to get a feel for typical programming
> structure...
> 
> but they both generated an ex.err file stating:

> C:\Desktop\micro\micro\MICRO.EX:81
> attempt to subscript an atom
> (reading from it) 

If you look at lines 80 and 81, you'll see:

misc=read_bitmap("c:\\micro\\p1l1.bmp")
all_palette(misc[1]/4)

Line 81 is trying to subscript the variable "misc", 
and the error message is telling you that misc is an atomic variable.
Since misc was loaded from a bitmap (in line 80), that means that 
the bitmap load failed (perhaps because it couldn't find the .bmp 
file.

Now - some advice.
To avoid insulting anyone, just let me say that I do not 
believe that particular program is a good one to learn Euphoria 
from. 
If you want to learn Euphoria, you would do much better 
to choose something else. Perhaps some of Jiri Babor's programs, 
for example.

> what are the pros and cons of using 'windows' euphoria over 'dos' and has
> anyone else
> ever experienced problems with the 'windows' platform?

Has anyone ever NOT experienced problems with the Windows platform? :P

Seriously, use what you like. If you are making programs for other people 
to use, you'll have to use what they like, and right now, that's mostly 
Windows. Those are the only pros or cons that matter.

Regards,
Irv