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Nano-X/NXlib and FLTK for DOS (Announce)

posted by georgpotthast Homepage, Germany, 23.08.2011, 13:04

> > Beautiful!
> > Now we need some applications using this library.
>
> Nice GUI, did someone tried how well it works on older machines
> (486-pentium1)?
Well I hope that some DOS developers may use my ports for developing applications.

Since NXLib is XLIB compatible, it is possible to port - to a limited extend - applications written for Linux/Xlib to DOS. FLTK is well known and accepted as a fully-featured GUI for Linux. It is intended to provide a similar set of widgets like the GTK toolkit.

I tried it on my old AMD Duron/1400Mhz and it worked ok. It should work on all PCs with a graphics card that supports at least 16bit Truecolor.

Writing a browser application is quite a project. FLTK would allow to design the user interface rather quickly, but porting a rendering engine will be a lot of work.

FLTK has a widget which allows to display its own HTML help file including links and images. Using that I made the following screenshots:

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The last screenshot was done by downloading the web page with Firefox and reading it again with the FLTK "Fl_Help_View" widget.

Georg

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