Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-23 Thread Georg Potthast
I would make a GUI vga desktop for freedos buti don't know ow to implement fonts in a vga mode -Chris Http://digitalatoll.com/ You are very welcome to use my FLTK GUI toolkit. The applications you develop for DOS can then be ported to Linux, Windows and Apple with a limited amount of

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Evans
I'll look into it, I normally have difficulty with code not written by me as the learning curve seems steep. Does it have vga font code in it ? Maybe I can learn from it to improve my vgalib.h -Chris Http://digitalatoll.com/ Affordable webhost, $5mo. 10gb, php5 On Monday, April 22, 2013, Georg

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-23 Thread Georg Potthast
I'll look into it, I normally have difficulty with code not written by me as the learning curve seems steep. Does it have vga font code in it ? Maybe I can learn from it to improve my vgalib.h -Chris FLTK does not expect you to read and change the code of the library. It has an extended

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-22 Thread Jim Hall
On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, dos386 wrote: I found that there are almost no desktop GUIs being developed There used to be and are many GUI's ... just most of them are abandoned as buggy and IIRC Jim Hall removed them all from FreeDOS list some time ago.

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Evans
I would make a GUI vga desktop for freedos buti don't know ow to implement fonts in a vga mode -Chris Http://digitalatoll.com/ Affordable webhosting, $5mo. 10gb/php5 On Monday, April 22, 2013, Jim Hall wrote: On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, dos386 wrote: I found that there are almost no

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-22 Thread Jim Hall
I think it's better to modify and improve another GUI, rather than trying to write your own. For example, you might pick up OpenGEM and improve that. Perhaps update the fonts, include support for different fonts, clean up the icons, add support for theming or other visual customization, etc jh

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-17 Thread dos386
I found that there are almost no desktop GUIs being developed There used to be and are many GUI's ... just most of them are abandoned as buggy and IIRC Jim Hall removed them all from FreeDOS list some time ago. http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=gui {{deleted}}

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-16 Thread Georg Potthast
I have recently developed a GUI for DOS: http://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/wiki/XFDOS This is available either as a bootable CD or as a ZIP archive containing two directories to be installed on a disk drive where DOS is already installed. By running appstart.bat you

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-16 Thread Michael Robinson
On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 19:57 -0700, turtleman wrote: Hello, I am new to freeDOS, but I find the project very interesting. However, upon doing research of DOS applications I found that there are almost no desktop GUIs being developed. It appears that freeDOS supports openGEM, but even that

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-16 Thread turtleman
Ah, I see. Thank you both for the information. With regard to Michael's question, I am not intending (immediately) to install DOS on any of my computers, but was simply asking this out of curiosity. I understand the limitations of DOS, my question had to do with activity moreso than quality,

[Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-15 Thread turtleman
Hello, I am new to freeDOS, but I find the project very interesting. However, upon doing research of DOS applications I found that there are almost no desktop GUIs being developed. It appears that freeDOS supports openGEM, but even that hasn't been updated in a couple years, and even the most