Jexer Work Log

March 18, 2017

TStatusBar is working, as is “smart” window placement. Overall this is looking quite nice. Found a lot of other small paper cut items and fixed them. It looks absolutely gorgeous on Mac now.

Tomorrow I will get to the public wifi and get this uploaded.

Time to call this 0.0.4 now though. We are up to 32,123 lines of code.

March 17, 2017

Jexer is coming back to active development status. I had a lot of other projects ahead of it in the queue, mostly Qodem but also Jermit and of course lots of actual day job work keeping me too tired for afterhours stuff. But here we are now, and I want to get Jexer to its 1.0.0 release before the end of 2018. After that it will be a critical bit of function for IWP and NIB, if I ever get those going. I need to re-organize the demo app a bit so that it fits within 80x25, and then get to TStatusBar.

A status bar will be an optional part of TWindow. If it exists, then it will be drawn last by TApplication and get events routed to it from TWindow’s event handlers. This will have the nice effect that the status bar can change depending on which window is active, without any real extra work on TApplication’s part.

Putting together a proper TODO now, with release and regression checklists. I think I will see if jexer is available at SourceForge, and if so grab it. Perhaps I can put together some good Turbo Vision resources too. At the very least direct people to the Borland-derived C++ releases and Free Vision.