RE: AVIO
BY: Henk den Adel to joaquim homrighausen on Sun May 07 1995 10:04:22

 > Dag joaquim,
 > 
 > Wed 3 May 95 22:57 joaquim homrighausen wrote to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:
 > 
 >  jh> I can't for the life of me figure out why IBM doesn't just add a simple
 >  jh> but fairly powerful 32-bit text-mode "UI" to their
toolkit. Sure, PM,
 >  jh> GUIs, etc. etc. But there _are_ applications that make sense (IMHO) as
 >  jh> text-mode applications.
 > 
 > Such as programmers editors.
 > 
 > 
 > Let me start to figure out some demands:
 > 
 >  - simply adress a location on screen
 >  - write or read text to or from this location
 >  - use video attributes
 >  - define sub screens
 >  - clear a (sub) screen
 >  - move a (sub) screen
 >  - save a (sub) screen
 >  - restore a (sub) screen
 >  - scroll text in a (sub) screen
 >  - pull-down menu
 > 
 > you or others probably will come up with have a dozen more.
 > 
 > If such a TUI (Textual User Interface) is portable to DOS, it will be much
 > easier to port programs, written in DOS, which phrantically drop text in the
 > video memory, to nicely looking 32-bits OS/2 applications. I stopped porting
 > nicely looking DOS apps to OS/2, it is sheer impossible to imitate the DOS
 > result for a fairly clumsy C-programmer like I am.
 > 
 > What can we do? Politely request IBM to incorporate a 32-bits TUI in OS/2 ne
 > version.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 73 es cuagn,
 >  Henk
 > 
 > --- The-Box Point 0.15+ PC

Well I have exactly what you are asking for.  It is my product Text
Interface/2.  It is written entirely in C/C++ and is portable to both DOS and
OS/2.  It provides you with all the windowing functions including overlapping,
resizing,  writing to any of them at any time, and more... The newest version
which will come out in about 3 days has incorporated new mouse support and the
easiest data entry system I have even seen.  If pull down menus are a concern
I'm sure you will find mine the easiest you have ever used.  The current
version is 0.99c which was shipped over Planet Connect about a week ago.  The
new version with mouse support and the new data entry system is 0.99d and will
be available for free download on first logon from my system at (404) 469-6752
with in a couple of days.  The source code is also available.  The nice thing
about the library is that it isn't dependant on hardware which means no
assembly.  It is even flexible enough to work on a remote terminal using ANSI
etc. if you want to convert it to that.  I urge all of you to give it a try.

-Jonathan Tew
Revolutionary Software
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