GUIs for GPC_(re)

Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:33:15 +0200 (MEST)

According to The African Chief:
> I understand that RHIDE was written 
> in C/C++, with a port of Turbo Vision to DJGPP. If this is correct,

It is.  Borland doesn't allow free distribution of C-TV, but everybody
is allowed to download it directly from Borland.  Unfortunately, this
does *not* hold for Pascal-TV, AFAIK.  :-(

> is there
> a GPC port of Turbo Vision, or is one being worked on? Can the C version
> somehow be used with GPC?

Certainly it can, but one must re-write each method of each object to
call a C++ method with a rather cryptic AsmName.  It will be much easier
to port the Pascal TV to GPC.  Having that, we can distribute a `diff',
so all owners of Borland's TV can patch their source to work with GPC.
While I am not an expert on this, I don't think that this violates 
Borland's copyright.

*And* it will be easy to port the whole thing to Linux because we can
"steal" the system-dependent stuff from C-TV for Linux.  :-)

> Is there a GUI library that is suitable for use 
> with GPC?

I am working on one.  Planned completion:  End of 1996.  Estimated
completion:  Well ... ???  :-(

Greetings,

    Peter

 Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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