Great news! I really have to start taking my E programming seriously

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Forgive me if this has already been answered elsewhere, but what pros/cons does this have over ECX?

How is PortablE progressing?

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Pros for PortablE:
* May work on non-Amiga APIs someday (Windows is a WIP).
* Uses C or C++ as a backend so may be able to take advantage of their software stacks someday.
* If you skip pointer usage in your source, it may work on Java platforms such as Android someday.
Cons:
* So much potential, too many "somedays" and WIP statuses in the Pros.

Regarding SimpleModPlayer and its source code.
Am I right the source code is the same for OS3, OS4, Aros and MOS?
So that when I compile the source for MOS and run it, I will see MUI GUI, and when I compile the same code for OS4, I will see Reaction GUI?

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Better to email me privately, as I don't usually visit this forum (except for posting news).

I have been extremely lacking in time over the last 12 months, so the only work I've been doing on PortablE is a major overhaul of it's internal workings (which was mind-meltingly complicated but finally seems to be working).

It looks like I should have time to properly work on PortablE again, so hopefully I can look at the MorphOS issues reported to me...

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PortablE pros:
PortablE is still actively developed , and since it basically works on Windows I should continue to develop PortablE whatever happens to the Amiga. (I gather that ECX is sadly no-longer developed, going by what was said on the AmigaE mailing list.)

PortablE is (IMHO) more future-proof, since it generates C/C++ code & uses GCC for compilation. So if MorphOS switches to ARM or x86 or whatever, then it should continue to work (but some work may be required if the MorphOS SDK changed drastically).

PortablE easily targets AmigaOS4, AROS & MorphOS, as well as AmigaOS3 & Windows to a lesser extent.

PortablE has many beginner-friendly modules, so you don't have to directly program AmigaOS (which can be quite difficult).

The changes PortablE has made to the AmigaE language makes it more beginner-friendly (especially type-checking), and improved OOP makes it better for writing big programs.

PortablE cons:
Compiling programs has much higher memory usage & is slower than ECX (although I have plans for improving this). But the resulting programs should be just as fast & efficient as those created by ECX though.

The changes ECX has (and has not) made to the AmigaE language makes it more low-level-programming friendly, if that is your thing.

I think that ECX can easily generate Amiga libraries, like AmigaE could???

[ Edited by ChrisH 03.02.2014 - 19:23 ]

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Yes.

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Currently the beginner-friendly GUI system still uses MUI for AmigaOS4. But I do hope to EVENTUALLY make it use Reaction instead - however I don't see that using MUI is a real problem, so Reaction support is a low priority.

P.S. I think there is a PortablE bug which prevents music programs from working, when you compile them on MorphOS. (But they do work when I cross-compile them on Windows, for some strange reason.) I hope to look at this, but it is a bit difficult when MorphOS doesn't seem to support sound on my G4 PowerMac while my Efika is too underpowered for compiling stuff

[ Edited by ChrisH 03.02.2014 - 18:53 ]

Good to hear! I still wanna try to learn E

New version up at Aminet: http://aminet.net/dev/e/PortablE.lha

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