TVision homepage

This is the official homepage of TVision, a port of Turbo Vision.

Turbo Vision (often called also TV, for brevity) was a widely-used library that provided a textmode application framework. By using this library the programmer could wrote a beautiful and flexible user interface in a short time. TV was available in C++ and Pascal and is a product of Borland International (also known as Inprise); it was originally intended to run only under MS-DOS and Windows shells. You can still download these ancient libraries from or .

Luckily, today this library is available for many other platforms (ported by independent programmers). My port is based on the latest C++ version (Turbo Vision 2.0); the targets are generic Unix systems. It runs well under GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, at least.

These four links point to other interesting pages:

• : complete TVision documentation (also distributed with the latest sources, see after)
• : significant snapshots of TVision in action
• : a collection of various Turbo Vision sources I found in Internet
• : a brief list of interesting links to other sites

The next two links point in this page:

• : the sources of TVision, various releases
• : some examples requested by users

TVision sources

Here is a list of the various TVision issues available; be sure to download the latest. All the packages should be ported easily to other operating systems with little or no change (most of them are built using GNU Automake/Autoconf).

1. : TVision 0.1
2. : TVision 0.2
3. : TVision 0.3
4. : TVision 0.4
5. : TVision 0.5
6. : TVision 0.6
7. : TVision 0.7
8. : TVision 0.8 Latest!

TVision examples

These are some examples users requested in the past.

1. : makefile template showing how to write a makefile
2. : how to change the background pattern
3. : how to use the TListBox class
4. : how to create custom views
5. : how to handle dialogs without menu bar and status line
6. : how to show a dialog box at startup
7. : a simple text editor
8. : the classic life example
9. : how to use range validators in input lines