... My first guess: The compiler is changing the parameter to lowercase on you automatically (reasonable to assume, since Eiffel is case-insensitive), and the...
11910
technoben59
May 8, 2008 10:37 am
Hello to anyone. I'm a newbie and I have this question: why if I use this notation cwin_test (Event: TYPED_POINTER [BOOLEAN]) is external "C inline" alias "[ {...
11909
Eric Bezault
gobosoft
May 6, 2008 4:04 pm
... No, because assigners are for "remote" assignments, of the form: a.b := c They don't come into play when we have: a := b -- Eric Bezault ...
11908
colinlema
May 6, 2008 2:33 pm
Would forcing them to also define an assigner, as a validity constraint, be sufficient? ... definition. This ... the feeling ... will slow ... feeling ... ...
11907
Eric Bezault
gobosoft
May 6, 2008 1:22 pm
... That's why I was one of the proponent of allowing this kind of redefinition when it was discussed at ECMA. I just wanted to point out that we have to be...
11906
Thomas Beale
twbeale
May 6, 2008 1:07 pm
... On the other hand, not allowing it takes away the choice to convert a stored representation of something into a computed form, which is one of the goals of...
11905
Eric Bezault
gobosoft
May 6, 2008 11:53 am
... Allowing redefinition of attributes to routines also means that the compiler will have to reject routines inherited from A that use `c' as the target of an...
11904
Emmanuel Stapf [ES]
manus_eiffel
May 5, 2008 11:23 pm
... This is because of the conformance rule that you have a catcall reporting even though in this particular case it is actually safe at run-time since the...
11903
Berend de Boer
berenddeboer
May 5, 2008 10:57 pm
... Emmanuel> Have you tried recently? I remember that for 5.7 we fixed Emmanuel> issues when threads are created outside the main Eiffel Emmanuel> program. I...
11902
Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
May 5, 2008 10:28 pm
... How are you calling routine c? You need to call it through a variable of static type B, because routine c does not exist in the ancestor class A. - Peter...
11901
Emmanuel Stapf [ES]
manus_eiffel
May 5, 2008 6:31 pm
... The simple answer is that it is not allowed by the language definition. This is still open to discussion at the ECMA committee but currently the feeling is...
11900
panfriedwoggle
May 5, 2008 5:44 pm
Hi all, I've been banging my head against this for hours and am now at a loss. I have: class A ... feature c: INTEGER ... end -- A I want to replace this...
11899
Heiko Gering
gheiko
May 5, 2008 1:20 pm
Hello, I'm searching for the possibility to read some values from a xml file, to initialize some variables. The Gobo library included in the ES distribution ...
11898
Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
May 5, 2008 4:06 am
... You're using EiffelStudio 6.2, right Chris? I submitted bug report #14127 for a similar bug six weeks ago, with EiffelStudio 6.2.7.2639. In my case, it's...
11897
Chris Saunders
saunders7777
May 5, 2008 2:14 am
I created a small project to test a problem I was having with a larger one. I created a default Vision application and I placed an EV_LIST in the ...
11895
Jann Röder
roederja@...
May 4, 2008 11:32 am
You can also inherit from THREAD_CONTROL (from the thread library) and then use the sleep feature. Jann ... -- Jann Roeder <roederja@...> ICQ: #29794099 ...
11894
Zak Koufakis
zakkouf
May 4, 2008 9:33 am
David, One way of doing this is to use Eiffel's "system" feature to call the sleep command of the underlying OS - see class EXECUTION_ENVIRONMENT, feature...
11893
panfriedwoggle
May 4, 2008 8:16 am
Hi all, Sorry to both the list with what is probably a trivial question, but I have not been able to find an answer through on-line searching: How does one...
11892
andersoxie
May 3, 2008 7:07 pm
Hej I am also interested in an electronic version of the book. Regards Anders ... publishing ... publishing ... an ... actually like ... glasses. ... classes] ...
11891
rfo@...
roger.osmond
May 3, 2008 2:54 pm
I built a vision2-based calendar widget a while ago. You're welcome to us it of course. I'm redoing my website to have all the src code Eiffel Forum 2...
11890
Chris Saunders
saunders7777
May 3, 2008 6:50 am
I too would love to see such a book. If there is a problem publishing because the audience may not be large enough, perhaps electronic publishing along the...
11889
Peter Horan
peter7723
May 3, 2008 6:04 am
... The authors were Julian Rogers, Ian King and myself. Glenn Maughan pulled out early on. Julian was arranging publishing, but I don't know what happened. I ...
11888
Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
May 3, 2008 12:48 am
... In the vision2_extension library there is a class EV_WEL_CONTAINER. I think it would allow you to reuse your WEL calendar widget. ... Maughan and Peter...
11887
David Jenkins
djenkins99a
May 2, 2008 2:47 pm
About 5 years ago I spent many hours developing an application that needed to display run-time graphics (similar to but not the same as horizontal bar charts)....
11886
David Jenkins
djenkins99a
May 2, 2008 1:57 pm
Thanks Manu for the reply. This makes sense, I'll try it. ... what ... it for...
11885
Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
May 2, 2008 12:12 am
... The best thing is EiffelBuild. It generates an application and windows that you design visually, so it's fairly easy to get started. There's also the...
11884
martinkew
May 1, 2008 11:35 pm
... Peter, do you know of a text book or instruction material for constructing GUI application using the Vision2 library, besides the library documentation and...
11883
Peter Gummer
peter_gummer
May 1, 2008 11:18 pm
Why use WEL anyway? Vision2 is much better. - Peter Gummer...
11882
Emmanuel Stapf [ES]
manus_eiffel
May 1, 2008 8:48 pm
... WEX has not been delivered with EiffelStudio for some time now (the last version to include it was 5.6). The source code is still available but due to lack...
11881
David Jenkins
djenkins99a
May 1, 2008 8:37 pm
There used to be a library named WEX that included Eiffel classes for creating splash screens and other Windows effects. That library is not included with...
