Talk:Turbo Vision

Fair use rationale for Image:Turbo Pascal 60 screenshot.gif

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Fair use rationale for Image:Turbo Pascal 60 screenshot.gif

Image:Turbo Pascal 60 screenshot.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:11, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

TUI

I don’t think TUI is the proper def for tvision. Somewhere I encountered a statement that its a "graphical user interface" because allows graphic elements, in a not graphic video mode. Please remind me to do a professional revision of article.188.25.52.79 (talk) 09:25, 18 March 2012 (UTC) I removed "site doesn’t answer question" ..

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It is a TUI because it runs in textmode, displaying text characters to mimic a graphical UI. Nils — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4C50:231C:B600:ED2:92FF:FE0E:4A02 (talk) 14:56, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

reason use of image....

Rationale use for image : <xxxx> Even myself have bumped into this message, even though it was about an original image been posted by myself. I suppose I require more helpfully guides ab. how should you do it, in fewer lines. 188.25.52.79 (talk) 09:32, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Release data is 1990

First release of Turbo Vision was in 1990, not 1992. Turbo Vision 1.0 comes with Turbo Pascal 6.0 in late of 1990. I absolutely sure. By the way Turbo Pascal's 6.0 IDE was written on Turbo Vision too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.49.178.185 (talk) 04:21, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

External link to a new fork of Turbo Vision

I am the developer of a fork of Turbo Vision independent from those already exposed in the article, with relevant features such as backward compatibility and Unicode support. In accordance with Wikipedia's guidelines, I should not post that link myself, so I ask you to add it to the article if you find it appropiate.

Link: A backward-compatible fork with Unicode support.

--Magiblot (talk) 11:47, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

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Link was added in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turbo_Vision&oldid=986236436.

--Magiblot (talk) 17:30, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Unicode section should be improved

Turbo Vision was first released in September 1990 with Turbo Pascal 6.0. Unicode 1.0.0 was release October 1991. It didn't see wides-scale adoption until late 1995 with the release of Unicode support in Windows 95. So the statement that "One of the factors limiting Turbo Vision popularity was the absence of unicode support in original Borland's version" is very misleading. It implies that such a thing was possible.

Consider something like, "Adoption of Turbo Vision for modern platforms is handicapped by the absence of Unicode support as Turbo Vision predates Unicode."

Factual error about the internal IDE usage of Turbo Vision.

Borland C++ never used Turbo Vision for its IDE as implied by this article. Borland C++ always used an internal library that predated Turbo Vision (an extension of the library used to build Turbo C++ 1.0 and Turbo Pascal 5.5). Beginning with Turbo Pascal 6.0, the IDE code-bases for Turbo Pascal (Pascal and Turbo Vision based) and the Borland C++ (C++ and an internal C++ library based) diverged. They shared common core technology (the editor and the debugger) but not the rest of the IDE. Both the debugger and the core editor survived into Delphi 1.0 (the debugger was replaced with the change to target Win32 in Delphi 2.0 but the editor continued).

Virtual Pascal version

Virtual Pascal contained a tool that applied patches to Borland sources, so you needed to have (a license for) them, most notably the Delphi sysutils and classes units. I don't have any installs any more, so I can't 100% verify, but I assume it also applied to Turbo Vision. Moreover because during one of the attempts to restart VP in 2005-2007, there were questions if VP could use FPC's FV. (the problems are mostly in the hacks for an early visitor pattern, where nested procedures are passed to methods, requiring assembler and sometimes disabling of certain optimizations for the relevant procedures) ~2026-32035-31 (talk) 11:41, 29 May 2026 (UTC)