F77 keyboard, mouse and screen handling 1

[palmenere]

Hi to everybody! My problem is in writing a code tat allows me to manage same technical data on the screen; I need to build up for myself a GUI as old BASIC and PASCAL interfaces; you know: tab key move, some small drop down menu, RGB colors... really very simple and very old style GUIs.
All my F77 progs they run from DOS prompt and to display results I have to store them in text files and then plot them using other programs: i.e. grapher or matlab.

Can you help me? Do you have any suggestions? I don't want to build up a complex windows style GUI, I need old type BASIC interfaces and that's all.

I am looking for these tools since a lot of time but no results till now.

Thank you in advance.
Palmenere

 

[xwb]

Try the Silverfrost/Salford compiler. It will do simple as well as fairly complex Windows GUIs.

 

[palmenere]

Thank you. I found this compiler but I need really more simple tools. I already use g77 with no any kind of problem. My target is to build up for me a user interface like "edit" command in dos or linuxconf in debian,redhat, suse... really I do not need console or windows like application.

Hope to find some other tools more simple, or libraries or any example codes written in F77.

Thank you again.

 

[xwb]

You mean you need some cursor addressing routines like the ones in curses. There is a problem with that on g77 if it is built with the mingw compiler. If you print any of the escape sequences, they won't come out. You need a version that is built with cygwin.

I have the same problem with g95. Have a look at

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1274468&page=6

It might help

 

[xwb]

One of the problems that you'll find if you're using Windows 2000 or XP is that the line drawing characters do not display properly. This is a hangover from NT. There is only one complete set. You need to invoke "graftabl 850" to see the graphics characters.

 

[palmenere]

Thank you very much, that's the real problem. I saw that thread and read it... just to check the ansi standard of my monitor I used a test batch file from

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ansi.html#ClearScreen

or

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/ansidemo.zip

but really no results at all. I am sure I have to find and adjust some wronge setting but where??

I'll work on it!

Thanks a lot!

 

[palmenere]

I start to see the light: have a look and test

http://www.nthelp.com/40/ansiNT.htm

my opinion is that we need to use and understand much better the DOS command "command.com".

Bye

 

[xwb]

If you're running windows, there are a few mods you need to make. These are highlighted in

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q101875/

The problem is they only work in command.com, not cmd.exe so you are restricted to 16-bit programs. I'm still looking for a way of running 32 bit programs from command.com or getting ansi.sys to work on cmd.exe

 

[xwb]

You could try ansicon.

 

[palmenere]

It works!

Another problem now is also in catching and recognizing which key was pressed on the keyboard.

Is possible to build up a string containing all escapes commands and then using a system call to generate the interface. Now we have to make it usable: to catch user's (me) input.

Bye