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From: dancey@milton.u.washington.edu (Mikel Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TP 6.0 Complete Reference,Turbo Vision.
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Keywords: Tvision, Pascal, Discussion Group, Card App
Message-ID: <17792@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 03:02:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.004238.7963@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1991Mar6.004238.7963@rodan.acs.syr.edu> mjducey@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Matthew J. Ducey) writes:
>In the book, 'Turbo Pascal 6: The Complete Reference', chapter 21 goes
>into Turbo Vision. Has anyone typed this example? Have you gotten it
>to work?  Does anyone have a handle on this?  Can anyone handle some
>questions?
>Thanks


I've gotten the entire app to work, although it's difficult.  You have to
include all the standard TVision units in the beginning, or it won't know
what to do with most of the code (a step conveniently left out of the 
instructions.... grr.)

I've used the insights I got from the example to construct the beginnings
of a Turbo Vision BBS (which I call the VisionBBS).  It uses the Idle procedure
to poll a buffer for incoming characters from the serial port (using my OSIO
TPU).  You can figure out most of the dialog box manipulation tricks using
the Card APP example, but it almost completely ignores fundamental parts
of the Turbo Vision interface, like the TWindow object, and the use of the
Idle procedure.

Ryan