Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 06:48:59 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: S ren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Cc: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, brandon@cold.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what 'dialog' library is used with sysinstall and what not? Message-ID: <26870.856968539@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 1997 15:42:35 %2B0100." <199702261442.PAA05200@ravenock.cybercity.dk>
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> Hmm, I have looked pretty hard for the sources on the net too, and > have only come up with the 1.x versions, so.... > I'm going to try find out what the deal is, we DONT want to use a > lib that Borland afterwards tells us is not for public consumption. Well, I read that license of theirs several times, and unless it's purely forged, I dunno. It looks and sounds very much to me like a "this is not strategic, give it away" sort of decision and I can definitely see Borland making it, considering how small the market for DOS CUI development is. > Hmm, maybe I could learn some C++ too in the process too, I havn't touched > that for a loooong time. And if we are going to use it, I'd better get > support for our mousestuff in there. I was hoping you would say that. :-) > I'll go find a virgin turbo vision 2.0 lib and see what they have done > (some of it looks like REAL dirty hacks to me). Well, anyone on this list with a passing assocation with Borland (and there's gotta be *someone*) and a knowledge of the TurboVision situation care to enlighten us? ;-) > Also I've seen refs to graphical versions of it (only in binary of > cause as is the rule in the messydos world, boy do they wear small > shoes over there), that could be an idea for my (slowly progressing) > native HGA/CGA/VGA GUI.... Hmmm! > Have you played with any of the CUI designers thats floating around, or > do you use "bare hands" ?? There aren't all that many CUI designers around anymore, but what few survive I've generally tried to use. This stuff is head and shoulders above anything I've seen to date, which isn't to say that TV is exceptionally great but some of the alternatives *are* exceptionally bad. :-) Jordan
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