Turbo Vision (or TV, for short) is a library that provides an application framework. With TV you can write a beautiful object-oriented character-mode user interface in a short time.
Original TV was available in C++ and Pascal and is a product of Borland International. It was developed to run on MS-DOS systems, but today it is available for many other platforms (ported by independent programmers).
This port is based on the Borland 2.0 version with fixes.
Warning: the BSD-style copyright is applicable only to the modifications brought by Sergio Sigala to the original code.
Happy hacking!
- 0.8
If you wrote a program using TVision or know any useful site please tell me its address. I'll add it in the list at the very bottom of file `doc/tvision.texi' (see below).
Read the INSTALL' file for generic informations on installing this library. More options are available for configure':
Linker options:
--enable-shared build shared libraries [default=yes] --enable-static build static libraries [default=yes]
Miscellaneous options:
--disable-acs disable alternate character set --disable-linux-gpm disable Linux GPM mouse support --disable-linux-vcs disable Linux VCS support --disable-freebsd-mouse disable FreeBSD mouse support
See directory `doc' and its subdirectory. Here is a summary of their contents.
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tvision.info' is a Texinfo file and contains the "installation handbook": information regarding installation, keyboard handling, screen manipulation, environment variables and mouse support. You should take a look at it before using the library. Just typeinfo -f tvision.info'. -
`html/tvision.html' is the main page of the documentation. It includes links to both the html version of the "installation handbook" and to the "class hierarchy documentation". The latter is a detailed reference manual for the various classes, methods and data members TVision uses.
- 2001: version 0.8 by Sergio Sigala
- 1990: originally was a DOS-based character-mode text user interface (TUI) framework developed by Borland for Pascal, and C++
- Sergio Sigala sergio@sigala.it
- Sergey Clushin serg@lamport.ru, Clushin@deol.ru