ASCII/ANSI GUI book

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(11-30-2019 11:13 PM)Guido Wrote:  The terms "GUI" and "text windowing" are not compatible, because GUI stands for /graphical/ user interface. In the time before GUIs ASCII was standard. With Windows ANSI became standard in the PC world. But I don't know for pre Windows 3 I have to admit.

As far as I remember, the terms used at the time was either "CUI" for Character User Interface or "TUI" for Text User Interface

(12-01-2019 07:59 AM)BruceH Wrote:  Did it have 'ncurses' in the title? A quick Google shows many books still in print.

curses and ncurses comes from the UNIX world and was not available for MS-DOS

Late 1980 and early 1990, there was several CUI/TUI frameworks books & library that were available for MS-DOS, the ones that I remember for C and/or C++ are

C++ Views
C Worthy
Greenleaf Data Windows
Panel Plus II
Turbo Vision
Vermont Views
Vitamin C
Win++
Zinc Interface Library

Also, several books were published that shows how to build a CUI/TUI windowing system, I had a couple of them, but unfortunately I do not have them anymore and I have long forgotten their titles.