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   Marco van de Voort to Jim Leonard   
   Re: Is it worth bothering with other men   
   07 Aug 08 07:26:23   
   
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   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2008-08-07, Jim Leonard  wrote:   
   >> Maybe another way of asking my question is:  Is there a better   
   >> framework out there that I missed for TP7?   
   >   
   > It's poor form to respond to one's own post, but since I only got one   
   > response, let me try asking my question in a different way:   
   >   
   > Are there any major reasons for *not* using TurboVision?  ie. any   
   > showstopper issues in using it?  Is it huge, slow, bloated?   
      
   That's a question that is a matter of taste or limited requirements.   
   Yes it is is bloated. On a 386.   
      
   > Is it definitely incompatible with X or Y?   
      
   It is eventdriven, which means a different paradigm.   
      
   > I ask because I'm about to write a program that could benefit from a   
   > nice UI that will take data entry from the user, and don't want to   
   > rewrite half the program if TurboVision is the wrong choice.   
      
   TV is designed for that, and other than TV/FV in Free Pascal I can't think   
   of something better for textmode.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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