Re: Proposal: ConsoleVision

"marc hoffman" <mh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:42591d8c$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

>> Perhaps they are only writing these console apps in TP because they
>> don't have Delphi?
>
> hmm. so they are gonna buy Delphi now, so they can keep writing the
> same programs? Why would they do that, except for parting with some
> money? I'd think if/when they'd move to Delphi, they'd do so to write
> Windows apps.

I modified several TP/BP apps to run in Windows console mode in D2, using a
slightly modified WinCRT unit and a replacement for my low level direct
screen write unit (basically, replace the direct memory reads and writes
with calls to the console character buffer read and write routines, with a
few enhancements to deal with block moves). Worked a treat, full color,
basically everything but blinking text (which was only used for a couple of
error messages that were _supposed_ to be annoying). Also ported were an
interrupt driven serial IO driver and a cooperative multitasker. The
reason to do this was because it was much quicker to build those four units
and fix a few 16/32 bit problems than to rewrite the entire application to
use Windows. Because of the way the app worked, it wouldn't run on WinNT,
so it had to be done, but customers were screaming, and we didn't have time
to do it all from scratch (yes, a missed market, and our fault, but
hey...).

It is hard for me to imagine anyone needing to do this nowadays, but I can
see where it might. However, I would bet anyone with TurboVision source
could get it to work in Console mode with only a few months effort. <big
grin>

Jeff.
.

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