[fpc-devel] gui console in windows

[Tomas Hajny]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 22:59:08 +0300, Rimgaudas Laucius wrote


Hello,

> > You can simply create a wingui unit which is e.g. graph based and which 
> > redirects input/output.
> 
> >Nobody will stop you from creating a faster console under Windows. At least 
> >don't expect anything to be written by the current fpc developpers.
> 
> >have you tried using virtual pascals wincrt unit with freepascal?
> >and if so does it compile and work?
> 
> No. I know that you are very busy and do not expect from you 
> anything to be written. But maybe you can help me with some hints 
> how to do this if it is posible. You are experts in this case. I 
> ported VP wincrt unit but it is not very usefull. It just redirects 
> input/output but that is not enouth.  I am thinking about creation 
> console where windows console related functions (getconsolehandle, 
> setconsolemode) could work. So standard crt and other console based 
> units could work without additional efforts. Do you think it is 
> posible to create and integrate into FPC such windows console replacement?

I might be wrong, but it seems to me that you're basically talking about
creating an alternative implementation of Win32 console windows. Whereas this
might be possible in theory, it would be probably a very complex task to
implement it... Integration on the FPC level only (like creating
replacement/wrapper functions for the appropriate console related Win32 API
calls in unit windows) would have severe limitations (including
incompatibility to any external libraries using these calls), anything else
would depend on availability of all required hooks from Win32 or lower-level
APIs (which I somewhat doubt).

Tomas