Oriel

Oriel is a "graphics-based batch language" from the Power Tools series of books. This interpreter aims to accurately recreate the 1991 implementation of the language for Windows 3 on modern hardware using Rust and Gtk+3.

To read about Oriel, see the book's chapter in book.pdf

Support for the 1994 Windows NT version of Oriel may be added in the future, but "Windows NT Power Tools" is extremely elusive.

Build

To compile the program, run

cargo build --release

Then, either run the program using cargo

cargo run --release source.orl

Or use the binary found at target/release/oriel.

Examples

All of the 55 example programs from the book can be found in the examples directory. See EXAMPLES.md for an index.

A hello world program looks as follows:

DrawText(10,10,"Hello world!")
WaitInput()

License

Copyright (C) 2023  Wojciech Graj

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

Portions of this software are copyright of their respective authors:

• pest, Licensed under the MIT License
• thiserror, Licensed under the MIT License
• gtk3-rs, Licensed under the MIT License
• Gtk+3, Licensed under the LGPL-2.1+ License

A big thank you goes out to:

• Geoffrey T. LeBlond, William B. LeBlond, and Jennifer L. Palonus for creating the Oriel language and writing WINDOWS 3 POWER TOOLS