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Re: Console decoration for DOS (windows) [message #36747 is a reply to message #36418]

Sun, 01 July 2012 02:08

lectus
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Registered: September 2006
Location: Brazil

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Interesting.
Borland C++ compiler used to have a conio.h library for this stuff.
Turbo Pascal had this too.

You should take a look at the ncurses library that does this on Linux.

I think this is a cool feature request here:
Why not make .lay files GUI create console widgets when we set a flag? That would be very useful to have consistent GUIs for GUI environments and text mode.

If U++ produces GUI from the same layouts for:
Windows GUI
Linux GUI (GTK)
Mac OS X GUI (Cocoa)
Web (HTML)
Android
Text Mode GUI (DOS and unix text mode)

Then it would be pretty universal.

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