Re: Custom GUI

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 [email protected] wrote:
>
> > The textui on Windows is pretty terrible.  At one point I wanted to
> > build a consoleui that'd work on Windows using the win32 stuff, but
> > it's low on my priority list and I haven't really looked into whether
> > it's a good idea or not.  Of course, it wouldn't support any graphics,
> > so it's not what kaishaku is looking for, methinks.
>
> I did read about textui being slow before I ever tried it and I did
> guess why this was written. So I tried textui myself and it is as fast
> as I would expect, much faster than tkui.
>
> I expect that some find textui slower because they are running it from
> the wrong console. In Windows NT, which is all modern Windows OS (XP,
> 2000, 2003), the old command.com dos console is emulated, and it may
> even be 16-bit iirc. The *real* NT-native 32-bit console for modern
> Windows OS is cmd.exe.
>
> ...

Not sure where you read that the textui was "slow" on Windows.  I have
never said that.  I said that it was terrible and by "terrible" I mean
pretty much not functional.

I haven't used Windows 2003, but I have run it on Windows NT Workstation
4.0, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional and it's just
awful.  It doesn't support ansi escape codes for color and the command
line interface is klunky at best (doesn't support any command line
keybindings).  I was using cmd.exe.  I don't recall if I ever ran the
textui on Windows 95/98--I don't think I bothered.

It's nice to know that Microsoft has finally fixed their crappy console
for Windows 2003, though.

I'm surprised you're having problems with the tkui on a machine like the
one you described.  I run it on similarly spec'd machines and never had
performance problems.

/will


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