OpenEuphoria

RE: Al Getz Display Server

• Posted by jondolar <lavigne.s at videotron.ca> Jul 27, 2003
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Pete Lomax wrote:
> 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

Hi Pete

I tried your little program on my Win XP machine and it seems to work 
correctly. When I fire test.exw, I get a little witndow and a counter 
incrementing and scroling up automatically on the left side of the RUN 
button. If I press RUN, I get the win console with some various called 
functions from win32. Closing the box produce essentially the same 
effect with a longer list of called functions.

Regards

Serge Lavigne