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What is the blue-yellow IDE/editor called?

by Yajirobe 7y ago

pjmlp 7y ago
It is quite clear on the figure captions, Borland C++ 3.1.
- gmueckl 7y ago
  You could even license the UI library from Borland for use in your own programs. And Turbo Pascal had the exact same look. Later, there was a near clone of the Borland IDE called RHIDE which wrapped DJGPP, a GCC port for DOS/DPMS. I had some fun times with that.
  - 0815test 7y ago
    The Free-Pascal text-mode IDE (FPIDE) also uses that look, even on Linux. But there is no C/C++ version that I know about. TUI-style editors (with GUI-like menus, widgets, overlapped frames etc.) in general seem to be unpopular on Unix/Linux, the only ones I can find (besides the one mentioned above which is part of Free-Pascal) are essentially unmantained. Of course the quickest way to get a working TUI-mode editor that is stably maintained is probably to add support to Emacs, which already has text-mode working with things like a global menu, widgets, multiple "frames" etc. many of which were directly lifted from the "GUI" version.
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  - antod 7y ago
    > You could even license the UI library from Borland for use in your own programs. And Turbo Pascal had the exact same look. Turbo Vision?
    - gmueckl 7y ago
      Yes! That was the name.
    - dfox 7y ago
      They even released the C++ version as public domain. Free Pascal uses it's own Free Vision which is back port of the TUI support into Graphics Vision[1] (which in turn is LGPL's reimplementation of Turbo Vision API in graphical mode) [1] https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~mkoeppe/mkm/mkmeng.html https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~mkoeppe/mkm/mkmeng.html
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    My first Borland product was Turbo Basic, followed by Turbo Pascal 5.5 (I used all the following ones up to Delphi 3 or so), Turbo C 2.0 and then Turbo C++ 1.0 made me a C++ fanboy. I thank Borland to my introduction to type safe systems programming via Turbo Basic and Turbo Pascal. The OOP learnings from Turbo Vision, OWL and VCL. And by teaching me already in MS-DOS that C++ was a much better alternative for people that care about safety than C would ever be. Oh and BGI was a very nice library.
    - animal531 7y ago
      Turbo Pascal was great. I had heard of this C language that people were using to make games, but in the heyday I could never find a copy of a compiler for it. It was only much later that an uncle of mine got a promotional copy of Watcom C DOS4GW that he gave to me.
owlninja 7y ago
"Borland’s solution was an all-in-one package. The IDE, BC.EXE, despite some instabilities allowed crude multi-windows code editing with pleasant syntax highlights. The compiler and linker were also part of the package under BCC.EXE and TLINK.EXE."
xtracto 7y ago
Others have said that. I remember playing with BC.exe and the free DJGPP + Allegro library to make games at that time... oh man those were the days to make games, it was romantic (and I was in secondary school). Too bad I was not in an environment to be nurtured.

What is the blue-yellow IDE/editor called?

pjmlp 7y ago

It is quite clear on the figure captions, Borland C++ 3.1.

gmueckl 7y ago
You could even license the UI library from Borland for use in your own programs. And Turbo Pascal had the exact same look. Later, there was a near clone of the Borland IDE called RHIDE which wrapped DJGPP, a GCC port for DOS/DPMS. I had some fun times with that.
- 0815test 7y ago
  The Free-Pascal text-mode IDE (FPIDE) also uses that look, even on Linux. But there is no C/C++ version that I know about. TUI-style editors (with GUI-like menus, widgets, overlapped frames etc.) in general seem to be unpopular on Unix/Linux, the only ones I can find (besides the one mentioned above which is part of Free-Pascal) are essentially unmantained. Of course the quickest way to get a working TUI-mode editor that is stably maintained is probably to add support to Emacs, which already has text-mode working with things like a global menu, widgets, multiple "frames" etc. many of which were directly lifted from the "GUI" version.
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- antod 7y ago
  > You could even license the UI library from Borland for use in your own programs. And Turbo Pascal had the exact same look. Turbo Vision?
  - gmueckl 7y ago
    Yes! That was the name.
  - dfox 7y ago
    They even released the C++ version as public domain. Free Pascal uses it's own Free Vision which is back port of the TUI support into Graphics Vision[1] (which in turn is LGPL's reimplementation of Turbo Vision API in graphical mode) [1] https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~mkoeppe/mkm/mkmeng.html https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~mkoeppe/mkm/mkmeng.html
- pjmlp 7y ago
  My first Borland product was Turbo Basic, followed by Turbo Pascal 5.5 (I used all the following ones up to Delphi 3 or so), Turbo C 2.0 and then Turbo C++ 1.0 made me a C++ fanboy. I thank Borland to my introduction to type safe systems programming via Turbo Basic and Turbo Pascal. The OOP learnings from Turbo Vision, OWL and VCL. And by teaching me already in MS-DOS that C++ was a much better alternative for people that care about safety than C would ever be. Oh and BGI was a very nice library.
  - animal531 7y ago
    Turbo Pascal was great. I had heard of this C language that people were using to make games, but in the heyday I could never find a copy of a compiler for it. It was only much later that an uncle of mine got a promotional copy of Watcom C DOS4GW that he gave to me.

owlninja 7y ago

"Borland’s solution was an all-in-one package. The IDE, BC.EXE, despite some instabilities allowed crude multi-windows code editing with pleasant syntax highlights. The compiler and linker were also part of the package under BCC.EXE and TLINK.EXE."

xtracto 7y ago

Others have said that. I remember playing with BC.exe and the free DJGPP + Allegro library to make games at that time... oh man those were the days to make games, it was romantic (and I was in secondary school). Too bad I was not in an environment to be nurtured.