Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea ???

2016-02-23 Thread Jayden Charbonneau
If you are speaking of a 'standard' set of libraries,windows applications use something similiar.Windows has a set of "Forms" and "Controls",which ALL apps use (hence,making them windows applications).Windows itself places a border,with different buttons on each application.The application can then

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea ???

2016-02-22 Thread G. Potthast
Hi Tom, I used a different spreadsheet so far and that worked: http://nab.pcug.org.au/ For my 64 bit Nanolinux distro I tried to add Teapot but did not get that to compile with FLTK 1.3.2. Teapot is written for FLTK 1.0.x and somehow will not work with 1.3.2. I spent quite some time but did no

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea ??? - BGI

2016-02-21 Thread Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro
BGI never existed on Turbo Basic, at least officially. Not sure about Turbo Prolog nevertheless. 2016-02-20 2:53 GMT+01:00 Ralf Quint : > On 2/19/2016 5:48 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > > I read (quickly) the Wikipedia article on BGI and > > the page at openBGI.sourceforge.net and it seems >

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea??

2016-02-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I just want to mention that I ported the GUI library FLTK to DOS. FLTK > competes with GTK and has more features than anybody could write from > scratch within years. > Based on the FLTK library I wrote the XFDOS Desktop for FreeDOS. > Anybody is most welcome to use FLTK for DOS to implement GU

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea ???

2016-02-21 Thread G. Potthast
I just want to mention that I ported the GUI library FLTK to DOS. FLTK competes with GTK and has more features than anybody could write from scratch within years. Based on the FLTK library I wrote the XFDOS Desktop for FreeDOS. Anybody is most welcome to use FLTK for DOS to implement GUI based

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea ???

2016-02-19 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Jose, > > to shorten that thread a bit, I would like to let you know that as > far as I understood Maarten in off-list chats, he only ponders the > creation of a graphical file manager, not of a GUI based desktop > shell or even graphical operating syst

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea ??? - BGI

2016-02-19 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/19/2016 5:48 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > I read (quickly) the Wikipedia article on BGI and > the page at openBGI.sourceforge.net and it seems > to be just another C library to be linked with apps, > not a resident resource. > BGI is a library that allows to load drivers for various vide

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea ???

2016-02-19 Thread Eric Auer
Consider improving TriDOS. Maybe replace the built-in DPMI engine by a more mainstream, more comprehensive implementation, as well? http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system tridos.zip 22k tridos_s.zip 371k source tridos.txt 3k direct link: www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea???

2016-02-19 Thread Mercury Thirteen
velopers. <mailto:freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> *Onderwerp: *Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea??? This was my intent for many years. Eventually I shelved the project because it a shell simply can't do all I wanted it to; I needed to go more low-level for that. At its heart, DOS (

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea ???

2016-02-19 Thread Mercury Thirteen
On 2/19/2016 6:06 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: ... Or you could do something like DesqView, as was discussed in this list sometime ago. In short, use the timer interrupt to swap between processes, swapping all their environment at the same time. To give an idea of the amount of work involved,

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea ???

2016-02-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jose, to shorten that thread a bit, I would like to let you know that as far as I understood Maarten in off-list chats, he only ponders the creation of a graphical file manager, not of a GUI based desktop shell or even graphical operating system :-) Which leads to the question: Which COOL and

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea???

2016-02-19 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
p: Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea??? This was my intent for many years. Eventually I shelved the project because it a shell simply can't do all I wanted it to; I needed to go more low-level for that. At its heart, DOS (MS-, IBM-, Free- or otherwise) is a single tasking OS. What this means is

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea???

2016-02-18 Thread Mercury Thirteen
This was my intent for many years. Eventually I shelved the project because it a shell simply can't do all I wanted it to; I needed to go more low-level for that. At its heart, DOS (MS-, IBM-, Free- or otherwise) is a single tasking OS. What this means is that you /can/ make a shell program to

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea???

2016-02-18 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
#x27;s why!" Some Nice projects: - Freedos - Night DOS Kernel Quote from email: -- Van: Louis Santillan Verzonden: donderdag 18 februari 2016 17:54 Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea??? Forgot to mention NewDeal [0] and som

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea???

2016-02-18 Thread Tom Ehlert
another one : http://www.georgpotthast.de/g-gui/ and Windows 3.0. there is certainly no lack of GUI's for DOS. Many have tried, but noone came up with a GUI for DOS, with the possible exception of GEM, and Windows 3.x. The chance that exactly YOU come up with a useful one is very close to zero

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea???

2016-02-18 Thread Louis Santillan
Forgot to mention NewDeal [0] and some other pre-Y2K GUIs [1]. [0] http://toastytech.com/guis/nd32.html [1] http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > Maarten, > > You should familiarize yourself with what's already been done. > OPENGEM/GEM [

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea???

2016-02-17 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
Hi, Interesting what you all think of it. :) I didn’t research, I first wanted to see what you all think of the idea. And actually it’s a bit of a mixed. But definitely some good reactions where there. OpenGEM is maybe an option, I will look for that. I will also do some research. So what I get

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea???

2016-02-17 Thread Louis Santillan
Maarten, You should familiarize yourself with what's already been done. OPENGEM/GEM [0], SEAL[1], DOSStart [2], others [3][4][5]. [0] http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=opengem [1] http://sealsystem.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20120818224825/http://www.icdc.com/~dnice/do

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea???

2016-02-17 Thread Jim Hall
Rather than create your own new GUI from scratch, might I convince you to improve & modernize an existing DOS GUI such as those listed here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/gui/ SEAL or OpenGEM might be interesting starting points. --

Re: [Freedos-devel] An idea???

2016-02-17 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/17/2016 12:19 PM, Maarten Vermeulen wrote: Hi all, It’s not really about FreeDOS… but it has something to do with it. :) I thought that maybe if you all like the idea, I could make a GUI shell. It would be exclusive of course. Though, It will be especially for FreeDOS. And maybe also MS