Turbo Vision
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| Turbo Vision | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Borland |
| Initial release | 1990; 35 years ago (1990) |
| Written in | |
| Operating system | MS-DOS |
| Platform | IBM PC compatible PC-98 |
| Type | Widget toolkit |
| License | Public domain software [1] [2] |
| Website | tvision |
Turbo Vision is a character-mode text user interface framework included with Borland Pascal, Turbo Pascal, and Borland C++ circa 1990. It was used by Borland itself to write the integrated development environments (IDE) for these programming languages. By default, Turbo Vision applications replicate the look and feel of these IDEs, including edit controls, list boxes, check boxes, radio buttons and menus, all of which have built-in mouse support. Later it was deprecated in favor of Object Windows Library, the Win16 API, and the GUI tools of Borland Delphi.
Around 1997, the C++ version, including source code, was released by Borland into the public domain [1] [2] and is currently being ported and developed by an open-source community on SourceForge under the GPL license.[3] An older update of the Borland code by Sergio Sigala is available under the BSD license.[citation needed ]
The Pascal version, which was distributed alongside Borland Pascal 7 on a "bonus" disk, was never released under a free software license, so the Free Pascal project recreated its own version by backporting a clone made by Leon de Boer that ran in graphical mode back to textmode. The result is called Free Vision.[4] Over the years this codebase has grown stable on nearly all operating systems and architectures that FPC supports. The textmode IDE is very close to the original TP environment, with built-in compiler and IDE much closer than e.g. RHIDE, and supporting functionality like code folding.
Unicode support
[edit ]One of the factors limiting Turbo Vision's popularity was the absence of Unicode support in the original Borland version. As of October 2020, there are Unicode versions for C++[5] and Free Pascal.[6]
Third-party implementations
[edit ]| Project name | Active | Latest release | Last update | Unicode support | Language | Graphical | Platforms | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turbo Vision (magiblot)[7] [8] | Yes | No stable releases (according to GitHub)[7] [8] | As of May 2025, project is active[8] | Yes (UTF-8)[7] [8] | C++[7] [8] | No | DOS, Linux, Windows[7] [8] | MIT[8] |
| Free Vision[9] [10] [11] | Yes | FPC 3.2.2[12] | As of February 2025, project is active[13] | Yes (since February 2022)[9] [10] [11] | Pascal[9] [10] [11] | No | Most platforms supported by FPC (tested on Linux and Windows)[9] [10] [11] | LGPL with linking exception[9] |
| TVision port to the GNU compiler[14] | No | 2.0.3[14] | 17 November 2016[14] | No | C++[14] | No | DOS, FreeBSD, Linux, QNX, Solaris and Win32[14] | GPL[14] |
| Port for Virtual Pascal[15] | No | 2.1 Build 279[15] | 13 May 2004[15] | No information | Pascal[15] | No | Windows, OS/2, Linux [15] | No information |
| GraphVision[16] [17] | No | 2.01[16] [17] | 23 April 2001 (file date)[16] | No information | Pascal[16] [17] | Yes | DOS (graphics mode)[16] [17] | No information |
| TVision (Sergio Sigala)[18] | No | 0.8[18] | 10 August 2001[18] | No | C++[18] | No | Linux and FreeBSD [18] | BSD-like[18] |
| Port for TMT Pascal[19] [20] | No | Not specified | 18 August 2000 (file date)[20] | No information | Pascal[19] [20] | No | DOS (TMT Pascal)[19] [20] | No information |
| Graphics Vision (MKM Software)[21] | No | 3.0 (DOS/DPMI/Windows), 2.10R2, 2.01 (DOS)[21] | 9 February 1999 (version 3.0)[21] | No information | Pascal[21] | Yes | DOS, Windows, Linux (GV/FPC), DPMI[21] | Free for individual use, commercial license, DOS libraries - LGPL[21] |
| Super Vision[22] | No | 2.2[22] | Unknown | No information | Pascal[22] | Yes | DOS (SVGA)[22] | No information |
| Turbo Vision for Rust[23] | Yes | 1.0.0[23] | 18 November 2025 | Yes | Rust[23] | No | MacOS, Windows, Linux[23] | MIT[23] |
Applications using Turbo Vision
[edit ]- Dos Navigator
- IBM Handshaker
- SET Edtor
- RHIDE
- OSPlus Text editor[24]
- TMBasic[25]
- NE (NO EDLIN)[11]
- EditV[11]
- IDA (DOS version)
- turbo (text editor)[26]
- tvterm (terminal emulator)[27]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ a b Tvision "What about copyrights? [...] According to a FAQ entry in the Borland's site (was in http://www.inprise.com/devsupport/bcppbuilder/faq/QNA906.html [permanent dead link ] when I saw it) the code is public domain. I also asked in the Borland's newsgroup and the TeamB people (not official people but they are who give technical support in the net) said me the FAQ was right."
- ^ a b Turbo Vision - by Borland Developer Support Staff on community.borland.com/ "Question: Where can I find the public domain version of Turbo Vision? Answer: It can be found at ftp.inprise.com/pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/turbovision/" (1998, archived)
- ^ tvision.sf.net on sf.net
- ^ Free Vision on freepascal.org
- ^ "Turbo Vision". GitHub . 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Free Vision - Free Pascal wiki". wiki.freepascal.org. Retrieved 2022年02月07日.
- ^ a b c d e "Turbo Vision". GitHub . 26 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g "magiblot/tvision: A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support". GitHub. Retrieved 2023年10月27日.
- ^ a b c d e "Free Vision - Free Pascal wiki". wiki.freepascal.org. Retrieved 2022年02月12日.
- ^ a b c d "Free Vision - Free Pascal wiki". wiki.freepascal.org. Retrieved 2022年02月07日.
- ^ a b c d e f "Free Software for DOS, Text Editors".
- ^ "Free Pascal - Advanced open source Pascal compiler for Pascal and Object Pascal - Home Page". www.freepascal.org. Retrieved 2025年05月31日.
- ^ "Commits · main · FPC / FPC / FPC Source · GitLab".
- ^ a b c d e f "Turbo Vision port to the GNU compiler and more". tvision.sourceforge.net. Archived from the original on 2006年08月19日. Retrieved 2022年02月12日.
- ^ a b c d e "Virtual Pascal: Article / Main Features". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2022年02月12日.
- ^ a b c d e "Скачать GraphVision v2.01. Графический TV - Turbo Pascal". tpdn.ru. Archived from the original on 2022年02月12日. Retrieved 2022年02月12日.
- ^ a b c d "GraphVision v2.01. Графический TV". pascal.sources.ru. Archived from the original on 2022年02月12日. Retrieved 2022年02月12日.
- ^ a b c d e f "TVision homepage". www.sigala.it. Archived from the original on 2022年02月12日. Retrieved 2022年02月12日.
- ^ a b c "Turbo Vision 2.0 Ported to TMT Pascal". pascal.sources.ru. Archived from the original on 2022年02月12日. Retrieved 2022年02月12日.
- ^ a b c d "Скачать Turbo Vision 2.0 Ported to TMT Pascal - Turbo Pascal". tpdn.ru. Archived from the original on 2022年02月12日. Retrieved 2022年02月12日.
- ^ a b c d e f "MKM Software". www.math.ucdavis.edu. Archived from the original on 2022年02月12日. Retrieved 2022年02月12日.
- ^ a b c d "Graphics Vision v2.2 - Turbo Vision for SVGA Graphix". pascal.sources.ru. Archived from the original on 2022年02月12日. Retrieved 2022年02月12日.
- ^ a b c d e "turbo-vision crate". The Rust community’s crate registry.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Rudge, Owen (2025年03月24日), orudge/osplus , retrieved 2025年05月28日
- ^ "tmbasic/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md at master · tmbasic/tmbasic". GitHub. Retrieved 2025年05月28日.
- ^ magiblot (2025年05月17日), magiblot/tvterm , retrieved 2025年05月28日
- ^ magiblot (2025年05月17日), magiblot/tvterm , retrieved 2025年05月28日
External links
[edit ]- Free Vision - Free Pascal's implementation of Turbo Vision
- TVision website
- "Sigala's version"
- Turbo Vision resources
- A lookalike implementation for Java
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