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From: [e-mail] (Norman Kraft)
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Subject: Re: I`m new here!

Dave Higginson wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Feb 1994 [e-mail] wrote:
>
> > And this month`s Amiga Shopper has a 2-page spread on E! Plus the address
> > for this mailing list... Prepared to be swamped by requests asking how to
> > access the CLI to compile E code! :) "What is ED?" ... "Hello World" in E...
>
> Unfortunately the article was written before E changed to a listserv, so
> they have the wrong address anyway. I suspect this may turn out to be a
> headache for Norm more than anyone else :)

It's not really a headache at all. The [e-mail]
address still works, it just refers everything to the listserv. Folks
who mail a request to that address which does not include a valid
listserv request (such as SUBSCRIBE) will get a cheerful little note
explaining how to use the listserv. 15 or so of these have gone out
already, just since Friday.

We are getting a lot of new subscriptions all of a sudden, as well as a
bunch of deletions, but since many of our list members are of the "strong,
silent type", it remains to be seen what long term impact this will
have on the list. Right now the list is at just under 170 members, and
growing every week. It's been much more successful than I ever thought
it would be when I first started it last spring. Much like my garden,
I've really enjoyed watching it sprout, grow and mature.

Norm.

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From: [e-mail] (Barry D Wills)
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Subject: Re: Strings and Numbers and Things......Oh My!!

Hi, Jessie.

~8>   I know in the Ref docs it tells how to change a string representation
~8> of a number to a number, but can you change a string rep. of a hex number
~8> into a hex number.

A number's a number's a number, dude. :-)  A hex string is an
"image" of a binary number, and you have the luxury in E of
looking at the binary number in more than one form.  It's all
in the perspective.

~8>   Also I haven't been able to find any mention of how to raise a number
~8> to a power.

PROC exp(n, p)
/*-- Computes n**p. --*/
  DEF i, x=1
  FOR i:=1 TO p DOx:=x*n
ENDPROC x

~8>   The reason for the questions is that in the game I'm working on, I'm
~8> breaking the map down into a 16 x 16 grid with the lines to the grid
~8> representing where the vertical and horizontal walls would be.

Sounds like a job for...Multi-Dimensional Arrays in E! :-)

~8>   I could use decimal instead of hex but I'm trying to keep my eventual
~8> data files as small as possible. Also being able to raise 2 to the diff
~8> powers would cut down on the code some.

Are you storing the data as binary or ascii?  In binary a 0
byte takes up just as much room 255 byte.  Same rule applies
to ints and longs.

~8>   I don't have a lot done yet but if anyone's interested i could send them
~8> what I have so you could kinda see what I'm trying to do and maybe offer
~8> some suggestions on how to do some things better.

<*drool*> Aaaaah, E code!

Later.
-- Barry
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From: [e-mail] (Matthew Hornyak)
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Subject: Re: Pointing to gadget



>
>
>>        ActivateGadget(g.gadgetid.0,requeststringwnd,NIL)
>>
>    I believe the RKMS say do NOT use ActivateGadget on Gadtools
>gadgets. Could be wrong, but I know you are not supposed to use other
>stuff like DisableGadget on it. Find the proper tag and pass it to it with
>SetGadgetAttrsA().

You may be wrong, because in the GadTools chapter of RKM Libraries, where
it talks about Keyboard Equivalent behavior, it says to "use Intuition's
ActivateGadget() call" with Text and Number Entry gadgets.

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Subject: MUI tools help

I am having trouble useing the Gadtoolsbox.
I can create a window and I can covert it to e with sourcegen.
My problem is..... I need some examples on how to read/write to the
gadgets.
Is thier a command like "getgadinfo" or "putgadinfo"?
Eric   <[e-mail]>
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From: [e-mail] (Jason Maskell)
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Subject: Re: I`m new here!

>>Finally, has anyone got any tips for reading tooltypes? My efforts crash the
>>system, but I don`t have the source at hand :(
>
>    I began a long time ago a program which needed tooltype reading. I gave
>up this program (for the moment), but I can send to you the parts that you
>are interested in. But the comments are in French !
>
    Actually,. tooltypes are really  easy. You just have to get around
the lack of the amiga.lib functions in E. I have fully functional
tooltypes code if anyone wants it? (hacked it up  for a commodity I made
for a friend)


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