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Turbo Vision was very fun to use and I made a good bit of money contracting on small projects in grad school in the early 90s using it. It made writing text mo
by dugmartin 5y ago
Turbo Vision was very fun to use and I made a good bit of money contracting on small projects in grad school in the early 90s using it. It made writing text mode guis a breeze. Borland's later Object Windows Library (OWL) was, in my opinion, much clunkier but it was done in C++ compared to Turbo Vision's Pascal.
Probably the most interesting app I did was a small quality control/stats app for this book: "Quality Control 4th Edition" (https://www.amazon.com/Quality-Control-Dale-H-Besterfield/dp/0135011159 https://www.amazon.com/Quality-Control-Dale-H-Besterfield/dp...). All the data entry used Turbo Vison and all the graphs and charts used BGI (Borland Graphics Interface). It was meant for student use but I found out later it was used by Jim Beam on their whiskey distillery production line.
- tssva 5y agoThere were Pascal and C++ versions of Turbo Vision. This version is based upon the C++ version Borland released into the public domain in 1997.
- pjmlp 5y agoTurbo Vision and OWL started as Turbo Pascal frameworks and were later ported to C++. Delphi continues this tradition, most VCL components are implemented in Delphi, even those shipped in C++ Builder.