ercanersoy / fdtui

Text User Interface Shell for FreeDOS

FDTUI

Text User Interface Shell for FreeDOS

Copyright (C) 2017-2022 Ercan Ersoy

This program is licensed under GNU General Public License version 2 and GNU General Public License version 3.

This project includes FDOSTUI library. FDOSTUI has own licenses.

This project includes Kitten library. Kitten has own license.

Thanks

• Thanks to Atnode for French translations.
• Thanks to Berki Yenigün for French translations.
• Thanks to Eric Auer for Kitten library.
• Thanks to FLTK Project for FDOSTUI Library.
• Thanks to Jerome Shidel for FDOSTUI Library.
• Thanks to Jim Hall for Kitten library.
• Thanks to Mark Olesen for some code changes and FDOSTUI library.
• Thanks to Parodper for Spanish translations.
• Thanks to Sebastian Rasmussen for Swedish translations.
• Thanks to Tom Ehlert for Kitten library.
• Thanks to Wilhelm Spiegl for German translations.

Compile

This software should be compiled with Open Watcom.

Contribute

If you want to contribute to this project, you can report possible bugs and make a pull request to the FDTUI repository.

Note

• FreeDOS is a trademark of Jim Hall.

fdtui's Issues

Problems with some strings in the French translation

Hello Ercan,

As the attached screenshot shows, there are some problems with the display of some strings in French. For example "Modifier laattribut" should be "Modifier l'attribut". I suspect the ' character is not properly escaped. If you tell me how to correct that, I can happily send a new translation file (I would also like to shorten "Attributs de l'élément" as simply "Attributs", as the whole text doesn't get displayed).

Tested with FreeDOS 1.3-RC5 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu 20.04.3.

Name collision on FreeDOS with DOSSHELL.EXE

Just as a reminder, when installing FDTUI with FDIMPLES on FreeDOS 1.3-RC5, the user gets an error message telling that dosshell.exe is already present (that's another program); so it may be a good idea to rename FDTUI's dosshell.exe.

cls

Performing a system("cls") is very inneficient. It requieres spawning command.com, and then executing cls.
Why not using Open Watcom's _clearscreen()?