Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 14:23:36 -0300 (ADT)
From: Bill Davidson <bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com>
Subject: Re: Windowing library (and pdcurses)
To: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl
Cc: nbd54 AT miranda DOT umds DOT ac DOT uk, DJGPP users list <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>



On Fri, 21 Apr 1995 kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl wrote:

> A well-known DOS windowing library is DFLAT(++) from Dr.Dobbs Journal.
> This however has not yet been ported to DJGPP.
> (It can be obtained from: ftp.mv.com.)

I am in the process of porting this now; it is just about done, should be 
ready Real Soon Now.  I am using version 1.9 (or is that 19?), and I 
understand that there is a version 2.0 which is not yet on ftp.mv.com.
The port has not been as easy as I expected; I have had to clean up a lot 
of NULL pointers passed to library functions causing crashes.  Also, as 
always, hooking interrupts has been problematic.  I'll let you know when 
it is all finished.
I have not looked at DFLAT++ yet and I probably won't.  Al Stevens wrote 
in DDJ May '95 that it lacks many features of the C DFLAT, and he has 
published a C++ wrapper for DFLAT (DFWRAP).  I may take a peek at that 
when I am done although my C++ is very weak.

Bill Davidson
bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com