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GUI in Python under MSDOS?

Richard Smol rsmol at bart.nl
Sun Feb 27 16:13:33 EST 2000 
chris patti wrote:
> 
> "Warren Postma" <embed at geocities.com> writes:
> 
> > Is there any gui for Python that will operate under MSDOS, especially
> > extended 32-bit MSDOS using the djgpp 32 bit C++ compiler/dos-extender?
> > Yes, you heard me right.
> >
> > Support for VESA or even some common accellerated VGA cards would be
> > excellent, but standard VGA [unaccellerated] would still be better than
> > nothing.
> >
> > I found a version of Squeak [a free and nifty smalltalk-80 variant, see
> > www.squeak.org ] that has a DOS version, but I much prefer Python's syntax
> > and structure.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Warren
> 
> The mere thought of a DOS port of Tk and then Tkinter to DOS
> makes my head hurt :)
> 
> The mere fact that Python runs in extended DOS is a major win,
> though.

Porting Tk to DOS would not be trivial, since there would be no 
base-widgets to work with. It would be great fun though to make 
it work. You might get stuff like those those early "Windows-lookalike"
DOS apps (anyone remember WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS?) 

It should be possible though to port Curses to DOS relatively easy.

Greetz,

RS
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