From: Thomas Dickey <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Linux compatible text dialogs?
Date: 22 Feb 2003 18:34:21 GMT
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Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au> wrote:
>>> The other option for text windowing library is TV 2.01 - aka Turbo
>>> Vision Text windowing library originally from Borland and available
>>> for DJGPP, MSVC, Linux text and Linux X.
>>
>>...it would be nice if it actually built/ran on Linux - I have not seen
>>two successive versions which do this.
> It sure does work on Linux, seen screen shots of Rhide 1.6.0 snapshots
> running under X built with the TV\, Rhide CVS snapshots.

>>> If you want true graphics cross platform library check out Allegro.
>>
>>ditto here - has someone started maintaining it?

> From both of your responses it looks like you do not know that both TV
> and Allegro are maintained and the main developers have been moving to
> Linux.

perhaps "now" - but more than once in the past (on this newsgroup in particular)
people have referred to Allegro as being worth looking at, while a websearch
found only some rather old code; and questions to the given posters for
a real/maintained version were ignored).

> I suggest you go and have a look at the TV and Allegro home pages at
> sourceforge and have a good read about where they are up to and what
> they can do.

I download TV each time I see an announcement; and have no reason to modify
my comment.

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