OpenEuphoria

RE: Lin32Lib?

• Posted by tacitus <indorlaw at zdnetonebox.com> Apr 21, 2001
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hi

i've also had trouble contacting jiri about the widgets lately, so i 
think he must be off somewhere enjoying himself.

i can say that until relatively recently he was working on the up-dated 
version, and separately working on an improved version of the font 
package.

i can also say that i have submitted to jiri an advanced full draft of a 
70-page tutorial/documentation for the widgets, which you can take as 
indicating that i for one will not be abandoning the project, even if 
jiri adopts the odd course of having fun instead. 

my work was aimed at encouraging others, both beginners and advanced 
programmers, to concentrate on a single GUI library for both linux and 
DOS (although DOS regrettably is becoming more and more obsolete with 
each new hardware advance). i therefore noted bernie's contribution with 
great enthusiasm.

i was hoping that the development project would be embraced by a wider 
group. my own expertise is more in writing than coding, so although i 
can code reasonable applications, and bug-test, make suggestions etc 
from the user-perspective, optimising a definitive library is beyond me.

i also see a significant gap in the tutorial range for euphoria - i 
thought the widgets could be used as a vehicle for the next step up from 
david gay's beginners' tutorial.

at the moment, the bleeding edge version of the widgets is only partly 
working, and that part is incompatible with the last uploaded version, 
so i am unable to sensibly use the widgets at all or finalise the 
documentation, which has been adapted towards the latest version.

while we're waiting to hear from jiri, are there others who would be 
interested in this project?

cheers
tacitus




Travis Beaty wrote:
> Howdy!
> 
> As I've stated in an earlier post, my biggest problem with going the GTK 
> route at
> the moment is due to the fact that, after repeated tricks and/or 
> tweaking, I've
> yet to get Euphoria to link up to the GTK .so file using open_dll().  
> So,
> Bernie's idea is gaining popularity in my mind ... I've downloaded 
> eu_engin and
> I'll be taking a look at it.
> 
> Concerning Jiri's widgets, is he still supporting the project?  I've 
> written to
> him and asked, but I haven't gotten a reply (he's no doubt taking full 
> advantage
> of retirement and autumn down there in the south 40.    Back six months 
> or so
> ago, he had a small disaster in which what was his most recent version 
> of the
> widgets were accidentally deleted.  Since then, I haven't heard anything 
> about
> them.
> 
> Jiri?  Mr. Craig, any thoughts on the open_dll() dilemma?
> 
> -- Travis --
> 
>