Rosetta Code: Group contribution of XBLite snippets?
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Guy LONNE
Feb 9, 2025, 9:57:36 AMFeb 9
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Hi Xbliters,
May 14, 2011, I wrote to this group:
"Some while ago, Bruce M. A. mentionned "Rosetta Code" (http://rosettacode.org)".
Now, I think it's a really good suggestion to help XBLite's future.
I'm gonna start contributing code there."
What is Rosetta Code?
"Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how languages are similar and different, and to aid a person with a grounding in one approach to a problem in learning another. Rosetta Code currently has 1,310 tasks, 380 draft tasks, and is aware of 959 languages, though we do not (and cannot) have solutions to every task in every language."
In fact, I did not contribute any code because of a lack of time. But in 2025, my only programming activities are the maintenance of viXen and of the WinX library.
And I got great help in maintaining their code from Rosetta Code; faced by the challenge of re-coding the toolbar widget for viXen, I found in this very site an effective method to clone a "grayed" version from the toolbar’s "normal" buttons: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Grayscale_image.
Once well-tested, I was thrilled to incorporate verbatim viXen’s code into Callum Lowcay's WinX.dll library: talk about great code reuse!
In 2025, my only programming activities are maintaining viXen and WinX projects. These 2 projects are coded in XBLite, and require me a great deal of time to keep them evolving.
However, my opinion is that YES, we have some resources at our disposal on the Internet that we could benefit from, and one of them is certainly the Rosetta Code wiki at https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code.
I intended to contribute some XBLite code to participate in the Rosetta Code adventure, and this moment might have come with the momentum of D.’s renewal for a 64-bit XBLite.
Alone, it would be too much for me as it would divert my time and energy away from viXen and WinX; but I feel that we can all contribute together, I can start laying the first stone in XBLite with this code for calculating the luminance of "graying" bitmap images.
Another way to keep XBLite alive and well?
May 14, 2011, I wrote to this group:
"Some while ago, Bruce M. A. mentionned "Rosetta Code" (http://rosettacode.org)".
Now, I think it's a really good suggestion to help XBLite's future.
I'm gonna start contributing code there."
What is Rosetta Code?
"Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how languages are similar and different, and to aid a person with a grounding in one approach to a problem in learning another. Rosetta Code currently has 1,310 tasks, 380 draft tasks, and is aware of 959 languages, though we do not (and cannot) have solutions to every task in every language."
In fact, I did not contribute any code because of a lack of time. But in 2025, my only programming activities are the maintenance of viXen and of the WinX library.
And I got great help in maintaining their code from Rosetta Code; faced by the challenge of re-coding the toolbar widget for viXen, I found in this very site an effective method to clone a "grayed" version from the toolbar’s "normal" buttons: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Grayscale_image.
Once well-tested, I was thrilled to incorporate verbatim viXen’s code into Callum Lowcay's WinX.dll library: talk about great code reuse!
In 2025, my only programming activities are maintaining viXen and WinX projects. These 2 projects are coded in XBLite, and require me a great deal of time to keep them evolving.
However, my opinion is that YES, we have some resources at our disposal on the Internet that we could benefit from, and one of them is certainly the Rosetta Code wiki at https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code.
I intended to contribute some XBLite code to participate in the Rosetta Code adventure, and this moment might have come with the momentum of D.’s renewal for a 64-bit XBLite.
Alone, it would be too much for me as it would divert my time and energy away from viXen and WinX; but I feel that we can all contribute together, I can start laying the first stone in XBLite with this code for calculating the luminance of "graying" bitmap images.
Another way to keep XBLite alive and well?
-- Bye! Guy
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