I'm not married to the idea of a GUI installer. I'm just as happy to update the text installer, but it has to look nice (again, this is the first experience people have with FreeDOS.) So, I'll expand my call for recommendations to include TUI toolkits.
-jh Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Jim, > I would like to remind you that I would NOT recommend to have > a GRAPHICAL installer for an operating system which itself > is PURE TEXT. I mean the only gain from that would be that > installshield sues us because we cloned their looks. Please > stick with TUI installers (defrag / scandisk / edit style). > Oh, by the way, if you are really THAT bored that you want > to write a new component, please write a TUI for DOSFSCK to > create a SCANDISK (as dosfsck has a simulation mode, it can > be modified to save undo data. plus dosfsck is interactive, > as is scandisk...) :-) . > > Well and... Pascal is not that bad, you could always fix the > existing installer if graphics would be that much desired... > > If you wish, you can merge that off-list comment into the > discussion on the list, of course. > > Eric > > > PS: I gui installer for a command line OS would make > people expect that the whole OS is gui, sort of... > > -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
