3rd Party TurboVision Products

Q. 502 Are there other good TurboVision packages?

• CyberTools 2.5, author Steve GoldSmith. You can reach Steve on the Internet at s.goldsmith2@genie.geis.com. Formally these tools were known as Custom Characters (?) The greatest problem I have with CyberTools is that it does not work under DesqView/X, but probably few of you use this environment. It works without hitch under Windows 3.x.

  CyberTools consists of several packages. Quoting from the docs:

  • CyberFont (tm) provides fonts, graphics, PCX images, sprites, bit map animation and DAC palettes. CyberFont is simply the fastest and easiest to use Turbo Vision graphics enhancement around. Now with new Windows (tm) look for CyberFont apps!
  • CyberAnimation is a fast 256 color animation player, creator and PCX importer/exporter. Animation format faster and smaller than FLI format! Great for multimedia or game applications.
  • CyberBase for Paradox Engine 3.x includes a new generic table editor window, generic table and index create, memo editor, cut and paste fields, easy engine configuration, automatic locks and validation.
  • CyberTerm for Async Professional 2.x is a professional multi-session async communications application with CyberScript (tm) script language, IDE and supporting tools. If you were disappointed with other Turbo Vision terminals then CyberTerm is for you!
• TVTools 2.0, author Richard Hansen.
  Richard can be reached on CompuServe as 70242,3367, on the Internet at 70242.3367@compuserve.com, on fidonet at 1:282/115. Do not confuse this with TVTool from Marc Stern which is for C++.
  • The package is available both as rhtoolsX.zip (on the internet) and as tvtoolsX.zip. From the docs:

    The TV Tool Box package was created to fill a few holes in TurboVision for Turbo Pascal. TV Tool Box includes formatted data entry with input masks, scrolling data entry dialogs, data entry field locking, check mark menus, enhancements to TApplication, some handy string routines, scrolling dialog boxes, 3D controls, virtual list boxes, spin bars, sliders and more.

• TVToys 1.5 from Far Niente Productions. You can reach author Peter Brandstr”m on the internet at d91-pbr@nada.kth.se. Personally I like this package well. I also support a bit of it in PtGen. From the docs:
  • An improved Help viewer with back tracking and the possibility to add Contents and Index pages or whatever without recompiling HelpFile.
  • Extended video mode support. Code that determines what video modes are available and presents a list for the user to choose from. Video7 and VESA support included.
  • Custom fonts. Support for three different font file formats.
  • Palette routines. Change the EGA/VGA palette.
  • A mouse unit that limits the effects of buggy mouse drivers in extended video modes.
  Three demonstration programs, personal configuration files. Lots of commented code, tried and tested.
• TVDMX 2.5, a highly configurable browser object. Recommended if you search a browser.
• SCRSAV5, TurboVision Screen Saver Module by Edwin Groothuis. Edwin can be reached on the internet as edwin@mavetju.iaehv.nl