Are any Eiffelists going to Apple WWDC next week? Perhaps we can meet up there. Ian...
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Guy Fokou
yafokou
Jun 3, 2007 8:08 pm
Hi, A few years ago I tried in vain to print some text vertically with Vision 2. Ian King told me the feature was not supported. I am wondering if this feature...
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Oliver
ojcurl
Jun 4, 2007 2:25 pm
Hi All, I am using Envision 2.6 with VS.NET 2003 I have a solution containing an Eiffel precompiled library project, PEMSEiffelFramework. PEMSEiffelFramework...
10781
galuszkiewicz
Jun 4, 2007 3:13 pm
Hi, I installed the EiffelStudio 5.7 (GPL) on Windows XP Home, in default directory (C:\Program Files\...). Because I have Visual Studio 2005 / .NET 2.0...
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rfo@...
roger.osmond
Jun 4, 2007 4:38 pm
Hello Piotr There have been many posts regarding pathname difficulties with various versions of estudio. I have run into a few myself. In the end though,...
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Paul Bates
pa_bates80
Jun 4, 2007 5:33 pm
Roger, The checks are an interesting idea, something that could be done at install time. The only checks I can see are ensuring users have not defined...
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Chris Saunders
saunders7777
Jun 4, 2007 9:23 pm
I have used EiffelStudio 5.7 along with Visual Studio 2005 without any major problems on Windows XP SP2. With 5.7 the only time a path with spaces was an...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Jun 4, 2007 11:05 pm
... That's a strange error message! Eiffel precompiled libraries _do_ have a 'dll' extension. ... You can build three kinds of assemblies in Eiffel: a .exe, a...
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Berend de Boer
berenddeboer
Jun 5, 2007 7:00 am
... Hash: SHA1 ... GPaul> Roger, The checks are an interesting idea, something that GPaul> could be done at install time. The only checks I can see GPaul> are...
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galuszkiewicz
Jun 5, 2007 7:55 am
Hi all, Apart from all those issues I don't think that E-S can't work with such weird path names (anyway I think using spaces in file paths is very weird thing...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Jun 5, 2007 8:25 am
... There's nothing weird about spaces in path names. It's been the norm on Windows since August 1995, and on Apple since the early 1980s. The "reasonable...
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Thomas Beale
twbeale
Jun 5, 2007 1:49 pm
In EiffelStudio 5.7 on windows, I find that it continually confuses where it is building a project. Even if I have built a project, and been forced to choose...
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Paul Bates
pa_bates80
Jun 5, 2007 6:38 pm
Ok, it's done. The installer presents a warning if you explicitly define environment variables that are used by the Eiffel compiler. The installer also now...
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Emmanuel Stapf [ES]
manus_eiffel
Jun 5, 2007 6:57 pm
... You should find the next 6.0 release much better in these areas. Regards, Manu...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Jun 5, 2007 11:44 pm
... 5.6 used to ask the same question. In fact, I used to build outside of my source tree in 5.6, if the Ace allowed it. (A major improvement in 5.7 is that,...
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rfo@...
roger.osmond
Jun 5, 2007 11:56 pm
Good work Paul! Thanks, R ================================================== Roger F. Osmond ... Amalasoft Corporation 273 Harwood Avenue Littleton, MA 01460...
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Oliver
ojcurl
Jun 7, 2007 4:32 pm
... have a ... with ... me. ... types ... normal .NET ... reference it ... library, built ... PEMSEiffelFramework; ... might be ... resorting to it ... always ...
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Oliver
ojcurl
Jun 7, 2007 4:48 pm
Hi All, I am using Envision 2.6 I have a class, STORED_PEMS_SUBSCRIPTION, that inherits from a class written in C#. The C# class is PEMSSubscription (in...
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georgedennie
Jun 7, 2007 8:28 pm
... I agree precisely. I am surprise that the Eiffel libraries are so dependent on STRING being STRING_8; and also, that the compiler only interprets literal ...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Jun 8, 2007 12:01 am
... Yep, looks like a perfect example of that old limitation. - Peter Gummer...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Jun 8, 2007 12:40 am
... The main advantage of STRING_32 is not that computers use 32-bit words. The problem with UTF-8 and UTF-16 is that many Unicode characters cannot fit into 8...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Jun 8, 2007 1:57 am
... I'm finding that doing a -clean -finalize ignores the -clean flag completely, as far as I can tell. Unlike -clean on its own, which deleted the project.epr...
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Colin Paul Adams
colin_paul_a...
Jun 8, 2007 5:08 am
... Peter> It's harder to write robust code when working with UTF-8 or Peter> UTF-16. No it isn't (not if Eiffel). In all three encoding forms, you just ...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Jun 8, 2007 6:26 am
... Well that's funny, I must have dreamt about those mistakes I made with wrong byte counts while trying to get UTF-8 working in Eiffel for .NET ;-) - Peter...
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Colin Paul Adams
colin_paul_a...
Jun 8, 2007 6:35 am
... Peter> Colin Paul Adams wrote: It's harder to write robust code Peter> when working with UTF-8 or UTF-16. ... Peter> Well that's funny, I must have dreamt...
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georgedennie
Jun 11, 2007 1:39 am
... cannot fit ... UTF-16. I might ... variety of ... tries to ... about the ... Thanks for the clarification/primer. I now recall reading a little about...
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Peter Williams
pwil3058
Jun 11, 2007 2:09 am
... UTF-8 will handle traditional Chinese. ... UTF-8 <http://www.utf-8.com/> handles all human language characters. It's a very ingenious implementation of...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Jun 11, 2007 4:03 am
... UTF-8 wins for conserving space and for backward compatibility with ASCII (i.e. character codes 0 to 127). Things get more complicated for non-ASCII ...
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Peter Williams
pwil3058
Jun 11, 2007 4:26 am
... Not very much more. ... Spoken like a Java programmer :-) Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@... "Learning, n. The...
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Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
Jun 11, 2007 4:56 am
... Sorry, I've no idea what you mean by that. - Peter Gummer...
