I think they did this already (a GUI for DOS) - it was called Windows :D mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/
2008/11/26 s. isaac dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> A crazy question is, could one create/have some sort of >>> GUI as wrapper for DOS command prompt? >> >> First, this strikes me as a bit OT. >> >> Second, what is there to present? What kind of presentation can you >> provide for a box in which to type and read? > > Well there's a help command in dos that spits back a list of commands. > Say you created a GUI that contained an address bar at the top like an > explorer shell, and in the window panel it had a series of links or > buttons to launch all the commands that are normally returned from the > help command. When you select an individual command it produces a dialog > box to receive your input, similar to the way we have dialogs for > creating tags in CF IDEs (that I never use personally, but... that would > be a reasonable analogy imo). I wouldn't be using the DOS GUI either. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:315939 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
