XFDOS

XFDOS graphical FreeDOS distribution

This distribution consists of a graphical desktop called SLWM combined with the FLTK based applications I ported to DOS plus other DOS applications.

Here is a screenshot of the desktop:

I ported XFDOS to Linux and called it Nanolinux. Here are links to Nanolinux:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nanolinux/

and on the Distrowatch site:

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=nanolinux

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: kd0tpc1...@gmail.com

Thank you much for this updated port of MicroWindows? + FLTK + Dillo + Extras for DOS.

You have done a very good job with this, and with out adding to much extra overhead. I use FreeDOS primarily as it provides the ability to take advantage of my 2.4GHz Intel Core CPU and 4GB of RAM for play with out an overbloated OS in the way.

Thank you again.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: ockert8...@gmail.com

I'm very excited about this library and the demos, thx!!! I just love pimping out DOS(box). Very responsive, almost as usable as Windows 3.1(1)

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: angro...@gmail.com

I got back on this software after two years... I tried a simple X11 demo in freebasic under dos, it worked with NanoX!

Now, I have another question: have you ever tried XForms toolkit? It's similar to FLTK, but it's written in C: http://xforms-toolkit.org/

Do you know if it can be used on your port?

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: dos...@gmail.com

I am sorry but I never tried XForms and one would have to try it to find out. I got GTK1 to work with Nano-X (on Linux) so I think there is a good chance that it will work.

Run ./configure on Linux, copy the makefile to DOS and replace in it Xlib and Xext with NXlib and nano-x and it will usually compile the package.

Also there is a C wrapper for FLTK for FreeBasic? so I think you could use that too.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: angro...@gmail.com

Interesting... is there a port of GTK1 for dos, too?

I've already got ./configure to work, for xforms, but it needs the library xpm.

I knew about the C wrapper for FLTK for FreeBasic?, but it is a shared library, and it'd need some changes to work under dos; also, I don't know if it's worth the effort, since last version of FreeBasic? is much more object oriented than previous, and has more support for C++ libraries (at least under linux), so maybe in few months it will be able to use FLTK directly, without wrappers.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: dos...@gmail.com

I did not port it to DOS. There are only very few GTK1 applications remaining.

If ./configure stops asking for xpm it will stop later asking for X11. Therefore I usually run ./configure on Linux as described above.

I thought the C wrapper was under active development and rather new. Usually you can compile a library for static and shared without code changes, just the linker instructions are different. It may require some changes for DOS though. Using XForms instead of FLTK will also be some effort and I think FLTK is the better GUI.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: dos...@gmail.com

I have seen that you already made XForms headers for FreeBasic?. Please send me an email to discuss this further. mailbox at georgpotthast.de