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 dom

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