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Fully working: FV Dialog Designer
CarlosVivaros:
--- Quote from: MarkMLl on April 25, 2023, 05:38:34 pm ---I think suspicion of malware is entirely valid.
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Please send all the files in this package tot virustotal.com. You will see there is no malware in these files...
vdos is used to run the dos exe in 64 bit windows. No idea why it doesn't run in windows 10.
I can use the software succesfully in windows 10/11. No elevation / compatibility settings are needed.
If the shortcut doesn't work: delete autoexec.txt and run fv-dialogs.exe. This is the standard vdos exe. If you don't trust: download from the vdos site.
Then you can start dos exe: dlgdsn.exe.
I have written in this FV forum. I have no intensions to compare it with Lazarus.
This FV dialog editor is far better than: Dialedit3b.
If you think it is malware: test it, or run it in a sandbox...
Regards
Carlos Vivaros
MarkMLl:
--- Quote from: CarlosVivaros on April 25, 2023, 08:37:13 pm ---If you think it is malware: test it, or run it in a sandbox...
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I didn't say it was, I said suspicion was justifiable.
I've managed to build a (medium test) program for both a GUI (using Lazarus) and TUI (using dialedit3b) plus of course command line, but the dialedit3b variant was particularly painful. And even going back to the '90s I've been struggling against most OSes' and TUIs' poor support for window size notifications (WINCH on unix).
I will try to take a look at this at some point, because as I've said I believe that this type of thing had- and arguably still has- viable areas of application. In fact one of the most impressive pieces of software I've seen was MS VB for DOS... shame it was BASIC (and Microsoft :-)
MarkMLl
KodeZwerg:
I barely remember 2 textmode UIs that I've used at that time, Borland Pascal and Norton Commander :-X
MarkMLl:
There were a lot- a Hell of a lot- of copies of Desqview sold in the late 80s. However they didn't have any development toolkit to go with it: they had various addon packs to handle e.g. (from memory) local messaging with the same UI "look and feel" but for some reason were more interested in trying to make all APIs "orthogonal" than in making a general-purpose development environment.
There were /lots/ of TUI toolkits (although I think that term hadn't yet been coined), of which TurboVision was but one middling-decent example. But my recollection is that interactive UI development was unheard of until MS brought out Visual BASIC, which was arguably improved upon by Delphi.
MarkMLl
tetrastes:
--- Quote from: KodeZwerg on April 25, 2023, 09:31:10 pm ---I barely remember 2 textmode UIs that I've used at that time, Borland Pascal and Norton Commander :-X
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As for file managers, I used, use and will use Far and Midnight Commander. 8-)
--- Quote from: MarkMLl on April 25, 2023, 09:45:24 pm ---There were a lot- a Hell of a lot- of copies of Desqview sold in the late 80s. However they didn't have any development toolkit to go with it: they had various addon packs to handle e.g. (from memory) local messaging with the same UI "look and feel" but for some reason were more interested in trying to make all APIs "orthogonal" than in making a general-purpose development environment.
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I used it, because it gave some sort of multitasking, but I didn't ever suspect that it was somewhat of development environment.
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