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I wish they would release that textui used by qbasic, edit and Microsoft works.

by stuaxo 10y ago

rzzzt 10y ago
Borland's version is called Turbo Vision, and it was available as a framework to build applications on in their Pascal IDE.
- Narishma 10y ago
  And their DOS C and C++ IDEs as well.
lobster_johnson 10y ago
As rzzzt says, you can get Turbo Vision [1], which is the framework that Borland used for all their apps. Borland released the C++ source code in the public domain, and it's since been ported to a bunch of platforms, including Linux. Google Images has lots of screenshots [2]. It supports multiple overlapping windows, including modals, and since window rendering is based on buffers, it automatically supports things like region repaint and shadows; it comes with an extensible file editor that supports selection, clipboard and undo/redo; form validation; and even persistence (any UI widget, or set of widgets, can be written to disk and read back again). It's quite an advanced object-oriented toolkit that's impressive even now, though it seems a bit insane today that they spent so much effort on something that could render only VGA's 80x25 characters. Documentation is spotty, but it exists [3]. [1] http://tvision.sourceforge.net http://tvision.sourceforge.net [2] http://bit.ly/2iJuckO http://bit.ly/2iJuckO [3] http://www.sigala.it/sergio/tvision/html/index.html http://www.sigala.it/sergio/tvision/html/index.html
- int_19h 10y ago
  What's more, Turbo Vision source code was eventually adopted by FreePascal, and they ship with it to this day. Their text-mode IDE that looks a great deal like Borland Pascal (but with a lot more features) is written in it. Oh, and it's available on all platforms, not just Windows! http://www.linux-community.de/var/ezwebin_site/storage/images/internal/artikel/print-artikel/linuxuser/2016/02/angetestet/fp-003.png/2806320-1-ger-DE/fp-003.png_lightbox.png http://www.linux-community.de/var/ezwebin_site/storage/image...

I wish they would release that textui used by qbasic, edit and Microsoft works.

by stuaxo 10y ago

I wish they would release that textui used by qbasic, edit and Microsoft works.

rzzzt 10y ago

Borland's version is called Turbo Vision, and it was available as a framework to build applications on in their Pascal IDE.

Narishma 10y ago
And their DOS C and C++ IDEs as well.

lobster_johnson 10y ago

As rzzzt says, you can get Turbo Vision [1], which is the framework that Borland used for all their apps. Borland released the C++ source code in the public domain, and it's since been ported to a bunch of platforms, including Linux. Google Images has lots of screenshots [2]. It supports multiple overlapping windows, including modals, and since window rendering is based on buffers, it automatically supports things like region repaint and shadows; it comes with an extensible file editor that supports selection, clipboard and undo/redo; form validation; and even persistence (any UI widget, or set of widgets, can be written to disk and read back again). It's quite an advanced object-oriented toolkit that's impressive even now, though it seems a bit insane today that they spent so much effort on something that could render only VGA's 80x25 characters. Documentation is spotty, but it exists [3]. [1] http://tvision.sourceforge.net http://tvision.sourceforge.net [2] http://bit.ly/2iJuckO http://bit.ly/2iJuckO [3] http://www.sigala.it/sergio/tvision/html/index.html http://www.sigala.it/sergio/tvision/html/index.html

int_19h 10y ago
What's more, Turbo Vision source code was eventually adopted by FreePascal, and they ship with it to this day. Their text-mode IDE that looks a great deal like Borland Pascal (but with a lot more features) is written in it. Oh, and it's available on all platforms, not just Windows! http://www.linux-community.de/var/ezwebin_site/storage/images/internal/artikel/print-artikel/linuxuser/2016/02/angetestet/fp-003.png/2806320-1-ger-DE/fp-003.png_lightbox.png http://www.linux-community.de/var/ezwebin_site/storage/image...