OpenEuphoria

Re: Lin32Lib?

• Posted by Aldrich Wright <aldrichwright at hotmail.com> Apr 21, 2001
• 463 views

Kylix is Delphi for Linux.
Delphi is a RAD Tool (descended from Turbo Pascal) from Borland/Inprise
(anyone know which they call themselves these days?).

It a product I've lusted after myself for the last few months.


>From: jbrown105 at HotPOP.com
>Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
>To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
>Subject: Re: Lin32Lib?
>Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:24:27 -0500
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>Hmm. Well. Maybe there is a way. Someone (clearly not me) should write a
>shared library for the widget libraries (such as QT) and then write a 
>wrapper
>for Euphoria on top of that! It could work, except we'd need A C++ 
>programmer
>who knows QT as well as Euphoria. Then it might work. Maybe.
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>P.S. I'm trying to wrap EasyGTK right now. However, it still requires a
>wrapping for GTK, so I'll have to keep tinkering w/ my easygtk library to 
>add
>that stuff in.
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>P.P.S. Wrapping GTK for Euphoria would work if it supported structures.
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>P.P.P.S. What's Kylix?
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>On Saturday 21 April 2001  2:10pm, Irv wrote:
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> > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, jbrown105 at HotPOP.com wrote:
> > > Anybody know of a clone of Win32Lib for Linux? I'm trying to write one
> > > that uses GraphApp, but the code is so premature that it isn't even 
>worth
> > > showing. The other alternative I know of is Llama/GTK, but it's too
> > > broken to be of much use. If you know of any alternatives, please 
>don't
> > > hesitate to post a reply. (Please do hesitate to email a reply  
>Just
> > > Kidding).
> > > TIA,
> > > jbrown
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> > Unfortunately, there isn't one.
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> > Programming directly to xWindow using Xlib is out of the question:
> > two or three pages of code just to get a window open.
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> > GraphApp, as you've seen, is limited by the underlying Athena or Motif
> > widget set, both of which are pretty primitive.
> >
> > Most of the good packages, like QT, are written in C++, which makes
> > interfacing with them very difficult.
> >
> > That leaves GTK, which is written in C, and is fairly high level with a
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