Re: Al Getz Display Server
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 00:27:18 -0400, Elliott Sales de Andrade
<quantum_analyst at hotmail.com> wrote:
>It appears the Display Server does not work on Windows XP. I just tried =
it.
I've put up a little program using Thomas Parslow's ipc handler, which
is still in proof-of-concept stage. Can someone test it on XP?
The url is http://palacebuilders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/euphoria.html
It is the last item on that page.
Originally I wrote this for an entirely different purpose.
The files are:
run.exw - similar-ish to the display server, it runs in the
background. If you run this, it starts up test.exw automatically.
test.exw - a test program. If you run this it will automatically load
run.exw if it is not already running (there is a lost focus bug - tho
I'm sure that can be fixed fairly easily).
test2.exw is a tiny message_box example.
Pressing Run should fire up the message box, closing that should post
a message back to the calling program and display it. It is not at
this stage supposed to look anything like Display Server.
If (*IF*) it works on XP, it would have some advantages over Al Getz's
Display Server: it is written entirely in Euphoria, so it would be
easy for someone to make it scrollable, change the font, add a clear
button, etc, and it is not necessary to remember to fire up the
display server beforehand. Maybe someone would like to tidy it up? It
needs a complete rewrite really, but hey, it's only 300 lines of code.
The demo uses win32lib, but I don't think it would be too hard to make
it cross-lib.
Pete
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