Free Vision (console mode) for Linux
lazarus / 66-Unix

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new2linux · 2014-08-06 20:28

A job to make a multi-distro installer for Linux has just landed. I
can't rely on a GUI, so I thought of using something like Turbo
Vision. I found Free Vision, though no downloads and no new
application entry in the Lazarus.

Is this feasible, where do I look, or do I look elsewhere?

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marcov · 2014-08-06 21:18

Start by looking at the textmode IDE "fp" in a complete fpc packages
install. It is the main app using it

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new2linux · 2014-08-07 18:44

Quote from: marcov on August 06, 2014, 11:18:26 pmStart by looking at
the textmode IDE "fp" in a complete fpc packages install. It is the
main app using it

Thanks Marco. I tried to find it. But "fp" isn't the best name to
locate in a compiler that prefixes everything with "fpc". Especially
if you don't know what you´re looking for. Plus, Windows 8 search has
its own mind.

But.., apparently it is a sad state of affairs: the wiki page
(http://wiki.freepascal.org/Textmode_IDE_development) begins with a
big list of problems.

I am looking into bash dialogs (from hell) now.

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marcov · 2014-08-07 20:31

Quote from: new2linux on August 07, 2014, 08:44:03 pmQuote from:
marcov on August 06, 2014, 11:18:26 pmStart by looking at the textmode
IDE "fp" in a complete fpc packages install. It is the main app using
it

Thanks Marco. I tried to find it. But "fp" isn't the best name to
locate in a compiler that prefixes everything with "fpc". Especially
if you don't know what you´re looking for. Plus, Windows 8 search has
its own mind.

It has some dos heritage.

QuoteBut.., apparently it is a sad state of affairs: the wiki page
(http://wiki.freepascal.org/Textmode_IDE_development) begins with a
big list of problems.

I am looking into bash dialogs (from hell) now.

That's like saying an old rifle has problems occasionally , and resort
to start throwing rocks :-)

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Graeme · 2014-08-07 20:34

Quote from: new2linux on August 07, 2014, 08:44:03 pmBut.., apparently
it is a sad state of affairs: the wiki page
(http://wiki.freepascal.org/Textmode_IDE_development) begins with a
big list of problems.
It's not as bad as that wiki page makes it out to be. I'm in fact
writing a console installer with FV too. But my Free Vision / Turbo
Vision skills have gone seriously downhill since the Turbo Pascal days
(long long ago).

From the FPC bin directory simply type 'fp' to see the Text IDE in
action. It works very well here under FreeBSD, Linux and Windows.

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Paul Breneman · 2014-08-07 23:43

There are some small zips on the http://ctrlterm.com/ports.htm page
that show how simple it is to compile the text mode IDE.