Modern Turbo Vision 2.0

Turbo Vision was very fun to use and I made a good bit of money contracting on small projects in grad school in the early 90s using it. It made writing text mode guis a breeze. Borland's later Object Windows Library (OWL) was, in my opinion, much clunkier but it was done in C++ compared to Turbo Vision's Pascal. Probably the most interesting app I did was a small quality control/stats app for this book: "Quality Control 4th Edition" (https://www.amazon.com/Quality-Control-Dale-H-Besterfield/dp...)…

How awesome to see this on the front page! I've been writing a wrapper for this repo. Right now I'm running Turbo Vision -- this repo -- under .Net on macOS. It's a magical feeling. The wrapper gives a higher level API, and solves some of the things like the rather antique palette API (or wraps it), is adding layout, etc. ``` var lMenuBar := new MenuBar; lMenuBar .Add(lDocumentMenu) .Add(lViewMenu) .Add(lDialogsMenu) .Add(new Menu('~A~pp').AddItem('E~x~it', Commands.Quit)); fApplication.SetMenuBar(lMenuBar); ```…

Awesome. Loved Turbo Pascal back in the day. A port happened before didn't it? I remember setedit and rhide about twenty years ago. At that time I was desperate for a CUA editor under Linux. So, I stripped down setedit and made my own simple editor in the tradition of dos edit and nano. That worked for a number of years but the tvision? lib was removed from Debian and I couldn't build the editor any longer. Couple of years…

A great framework, the version introduced with Turbo Pascal 6.0 taught me about good framework OOP design. It is incredible that we already had a powerful framework (granted TUI only), that has plenty of components, serialisation, reflection, collections, and common FP like patterns like map/filter/forecast,.... All for MS-DOS, targeting 640 KB systems. Meanwhile people ship Chrome alongside their calculator app nowadays.