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The RapidEuphoria Language

RapidEuphoria is a wonderful programming language who:

• Is simple to learn
• Has a really good performance (comparable with C)
• Is procedural
• If you want you can write code in an object-oriented style, choosing an object-orientation layer and downloading if from the RapidEuphoria web site
• Can be interpreted
• Can be translated to ANSI C and the compiled
• Has a really wonderful FFI interface
• Has a good debugger
• Many great things to add here :-)

If you have some free time, I advise you to try it.

The Tcl wrapper

This module is a wrapper who enable RapidEuphoria programs to embed a Tcl/Tk interpreter in a system-indipendent way.

In detail, with the Tcl wrapper, you can:

• Invoke a tcl command from an euphoria program and store the result somewhere like this:

      p=tcl_execute("wm title . {Listbox example}")
  

• Register a new tcl command that will call an euphoria procedure. Like this:

  function add_value_callback()
      sequence content
      
      content=tcl_eval(".en get")
      if length(content)=0 then
          tcl_execute("tk_messageBox -message {Please enter a value} -icon info -type ok")
      else
          tcl_execute_f(".f.list insert end {%s}", {content})
      end if
      
      return ""
  end function
  
  ...
  
  tcl_register_command("euph_add_value", routine_id("add_value_callback"))
  

• Write platform-independent gui apps using the Tk toolkit. Please see the included examples.

Tested system configuration

• Linux and Tcl/Tk 8.4.14
• Linux and Tcl/Tk 8.5 alpha
• Windows XP, ActiveTcl 8.4
• Windows XP, ActiveTcl 8.5

Downloads

The wrapper is available under a BSD-like licence so you can do anything with it, commercial applications included.

You can find the code and download the releases in the GitHub Repo.

Please remember that, in order to use this wrapper, you must install the Tcl/Tk interpreter.

Acknowledgement

A big thank you to the RapidEuphoria developers, they have done a really good job.

If you have some questions or you want to contact me you can use my email address: leonardoNOSPAMce@interfree.it.

Please remove NOSPAM from the address

I would be glad if you make me know if you are using this module in your project.

Latest update: 16/7/2007