GUO in DOS

[rajeevktripathi]

Hi All I have to create a GUI in turbo C++ for Dos. and I want to give Windows like look in interface. so can you please tell me any library for GUI which could be used in DOS. or tell me any better approach. Thanks Edit/Delete Message

[realJSOP]

Use Borland C++ 2.0 (or maybe 3.0). It comes with TurboVision. I believe 3.0 could produce oth Windows and DOS apps.... it's been over 15 years since I did a DOS app...

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[_AnsHUMAN_]

:doh:Humm, this seems Hard to do with TurboC++. See here for some help[^]

Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them. ;-)_AnShUmAn_

[Monty2]

rajeevktripathi wrote:

I have to create a GUI in turbo C++ for Dos. and I want to give Windows like look in interface.

Never thought i'd hear this :~

rajeevktripathi wrote:

or tell me any better approach.

Use Windows

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[realJSOP]

Monty2 wrote:

Use Windows

He's already stated that he needs to write a DOS app, so it's obviously a *requirement* over which he has no control. People that come here and state their requirements aren't typically in the mood for off-the-cuff bullshit answers like yours. -- modified at 9:54 Thursday 27th July, 2006

[rajeevktripathi]

Thanks U all OK I will start to write such programs can u please guide me how to proceed But would like to tell the reason whiy I need .. Infact working on such project where if system is crashed then system will be started with a bootable floppy ( in DOS mode) and our application will be invoked so wanna write GUI code for that part.. Please help me Thanks

[realJSOP]

Telling you how to write an application is WAY beyond the scope of this forum.

"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

[Joe Woodbury]

Isn't that called Windows 3.0? More seriously, when I did DOS programming, there were several graphics libraries, UI toolkits and other such things available. Unfortunately, not only are the obsolete, most the companies don't exist any more. (I last evaluated one of these libraries in 1989--the name "GreenLeaf" pops into mind--if they are who I remember them to be, contact them and see if they have some archived stuff they can sell you.) A big problem is finding products that actually have drivers for DOS (this was the big bugaboo when doing this; you had to ship with a ton of graphics drivers and hoped that the user knew which one they were using since there was no standard detection method [somewhere, I have the code to detect if you were running Hercules mono, CGA, EGA or VGA graphics.])

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[Gary R Wheeler]

Unfortunately, modern support for the 'old' video standards is hit-or-miss. I've got an old text-mode DOS app that my company uses in manufacturing. We've got a shrinking pile of old hardware that gets swapped around and periodically refurbished for the app to run on. I've not had good luck running it on contemporary hardware. BIOS functions are missing or incorrectly implemented, hardware register emulation is half-assed, and so on. I get the impression that, about ten years ago, someone wrote a 'text-mode emulator' package in VHDL, and everyone's been using it since then without ever testing it. Yeah, I know it would be smarter for me to rewrite the app. It's a lot cheaper, however, to have a technician scrounge up some hardware every six months and spend half a day putting it together.

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