ASCII/ANSI GUI book

[Garth Wilson]

(11-30-2019 11:13 PM)Guido Wrote:  

Quote:I remember visiting it once and I happened upon a book in the computer section that detailed how to create an ASCII / ANSI GUI text windowing system, with a lot of neat tricks.

The terms "GUI" and "text windowing" are not compatible, because GUI stands for /graphical/ user interface.

I assume he means graphical in the sense that you can use the mouse to draw and resize windows and blocks, drag on the scroll bars, point and click on menus, etc.. I still use one DOS-based program somewhat regularly that does this, and drawing illustrative diagrams in the text with the ANSI characters is as easy as if it were CAD.