OpenEuphoria

wishlist

• Posted by sephiroth _ <euman2376 at yahoo.com> Apr 11, 2001
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here are some things that'd be cool to put in eu...

1) an "ncurses" option for the without keyword to use basic console I/O 
without initializing ncurses. i have a program i'm writing with Irv's 
GraphApp wrapper. When someone clicks the menu and then selects Close or 
Delete or whatever, the window will close and exu will shutdown, but if 
it was launched from the console, outside of ncurses, no color will be 
seen, nothing typed will be echoed, and carriage returns don't do 
anything

2) Defining symbols. For example:

--- somefile.e
if somecondition then
  define get_a_life
end if
...

-- main.ex
include somefile.e

if defined(get_a_life) then
  puts(1,"You need a life. How many can I put you down for? ")
...

3) A rename() function:

result = rename("afile","anewfilename")

4) A set_attributes() function:

result = set_attributes("afile","744")

or

result = set_attributes("afile,"rwxr--r--")

or in DOS/Windows

result = set_attributes("afile","+a-h") -- set archive, unset hidden

or in any upcoming Macintosh port...

result = set_attributes("afile",{"APPL","????",0})

where the first item is the file type, the second is the creator, and 
the third indicates if the file is locked.

5) Maybe even the ability to use .o and .a files in Linux and .lib and 
.obj files in DOS