Hi,

I was originally going to sit this one out because I didn't have
anything worthwhile to mention, but ....

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Antony Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Jayden, I don't know if you have used Windows (I'm sure you have), but my
> program is essentially a DOS version of the System Configuration Editor that
> came with Windows 3.x.

It's been many years since most of us used that. I don't even remember
it, to be honest. I was weakly thinking of "msconfig" here.

> I wrote this program using TV on Turbo Pascal when I
> was working at CompUSA and customers would butcher Windows to the point of
> not booting. The program opened all the files at once so I could look at
> them all easily to see what was messed up.

Okay, sounds good.

A quick suggestion here would be to try to find more than just
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. Specifically, I'm thinking of
FDCONFIG.SYS, FDAUTO.BAT, or similarly renamed files (e.g. DR-DOS
7.03:  DCONFIG.SYS, AUTODOS7.BAT or whatever).

> At the time, the basic functionality was all I needed, so I didn't delve
> into the program more. Releasing it to the FreeDOS community in it's current
> form will probably get comments around the fact that it is a basic Turbo
> Vision app and I didn't do "anything".

Okay.

> I am looking for some examples on how to extend the Turbo Vision Editor (or
> FileEditor) object to include syntax highlighting. So far, I haven't been
> fruitful in my search.

I've honestly never delved into TVision myself. I know you're using TP
here, but IIRC even FreePascal has its own clone, FreeVision, which is
used in their (TUI) IDE for DOS. They also have experimental 16-bit
DOS target support, but I honestly don't know if FreeVision works
there (yet). I'm not really in the loop on what's going on over there.

But anyways, you may want to take a look at that. IIRC, their IDE
supports syntax highlighting, so it may be something they added to FV.

1). http://wiki.freepascal.org/Free_Vision
2). http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/user/usersu52.html

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