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Curt Carpenter

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Console User Interfaces
« on: May 20, 2025, 01:05:51 am »
Does anyone have a link to an article about deigning good user interfaces for console apps (perhaps using the CRT unit)?  It's been so long that I've forgotten a lot of the "best practice" approaches from all those years ago.
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Re: Console User Interfaces
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2025, 08:05:54 am »
Hello,
Free Vision ? tutorial project( deutsch)
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Re: Console User Interfaces
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2025, 08:52:33 am »
The demo project that comes with FreeVision is also a good starter.
Also any info and books for TurboVision will work more or less for that.
There are also interfaces like ncurses.
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Re: Console User Interfaces
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2025, 09:51:33 am »
Hi
@Curt: For your info, there are units in 'Free Vision' that starts with 'u', they're the Unicode versions. If you run into /Codepage-Hell/ try using them instead...
Regards Benny
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Re: Console User Interfaces
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2025, 11:21:21 am »
in attachment the editor project from Free vision github tutorial, translated in english by chatGpt

on my laptop on Windows 11, the background seems "flickering" . How do you avoid this ?

(to run the program on windows , don't forget to uncheck  Run Parameters/Launching Application/use launching Application)
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Re: Console User Interfaces
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2025, 12:17:19 pm »
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Re: Console User Interfaces
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2025, 12:33:04 pm »
Quote from: Jurassic Pork on May 20, 2025, 11:21:21 am
in attachment the editor project from Free vision github tutorial, translated in english by chatGpt

on my laptop on Windows 11, the background seems "flickering" . How do you avoid this ?

I ran from commandline (so not via lazarus) and don't see flickering
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Re: Console User Interfaces
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2025, 12:50:10 pm »
Under Windows I can spot some flickering on a slow machine whem a console is started, but not when I skip the GUI from Windows altogether.
Then again it should run fine on e.g. a 30386 or less.
Windows console IO for terminals is really slow.
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Re: Console User Interfaces
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2025, 01:25:05 pm »
Quote from: marcov on May 20, 2025, 12:33:04 pm
I ran from commandline (so not via lazarus) and don't see flickering
With Render  Graphics APi Parameter to Direct2D  for the cmd console :    background not flickering
With Render  Graphics APi Parameter to Direct3D 11  for the cmd console :    background flickering  (little)
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Re: Console User Interfaces
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2025, 04:44:56 pm »
Thank you very much for all the inputs.  Downloaded the TurboVision book from the archive and will spend time with it today, and copied the FV files for a look later.  Nobody ever did documentation like Borland did back in the day...

Thanks again.   
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