[Fwd: Turbo Vision 2.0.0 released]

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Subject: Turbo Vision 2.0.0 released
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 17:41:59 -0300
From: Salvador Eduardo Tropea <[email protected]>
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp

Hi All!

   Just to inform that Turbo Vision 2.0.0 was released.
   The .zip file containing sources (no binaries) can be downloaded from
Source Forge: http://tvision.sf.net/
   I already uploaded the .zip to DJ´s site so it will be also available
from Simtelnet network soon.

What´s TV?

Turbo Vision (TVision for short) is a TUI (Text User Interface) that
implements the well known CUA widgets. With TVision you can create an
/intuitive/ text mode application, intuitive means it will have CUA like
interface (check boxes, radio buttons, push buttons, input lines,
pull-down menues, status bars, etc.). All the people acustomed to the
Windows, MacOS, OS/2, Motif, GTK, etc. interfaces will understand the
interface at first sight.

What´s new?

* Configuration files support. Now you can set options that controls TV
using simple text files. They can be used to customize applications also.
* Code pages support. More than 43 code pages covering the most common
latin, cyrillic and greek encodings.
* Fonts support. You can load upto 2 fonts.
* Pseudo-drivers scheme to isolate terminal dependent details.
* The DOS driver is safier. Now the library doesn´t use the "VGA BIOS
save/restore state" call, it seems to be buggy in a lot of boards. The
support for it can be enabled using configuration files.
And more.

Some extra info:

+Now the library supports:
* DOS, FreeBSD, Linux (console, XTerm/Eterm and X11), QNX, Solaris,
Win32 (i.e. Cygwin & MinGW)
* gcc, BC++ and MSVC
* Alpha, PPC, SPARC and x86 (tested, I guess more are supported)
+ Thanks to Florian Xaver, he was the only that replied my post to the
djgpp list when I asked for testing.
+ RHIDE doesn´t compile using TV 2.0.0, you´ll have to wait for that.
+ SETEdit version that compiles with it is v0.5.0 only available from
cvs. SETEdit v0.4.54 won´t copile using it.
+ The X11 driver emulates a text mode "drawing" it, an equivalent Win32
driver using the GDI API is included but is experimental.
+ An Allegro driver was tested as a probe of concept and should be
available in future releases.

SET

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