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
their 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
next version. 



73 es cuagn,
 Henk

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