--- In dwp@yahoogroups.com, "code suidae" <codesuidae@...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:32 AM, thomas.schoenfelder
> <thomas.schoenfelder@...> wrote:
> > --- In dwp@yahoogroups.com, "Joe da Silva" <Joe.daSilva@> wrote:
> >> Just as DWPL aims to provide a common RAD solution for
> >> Windoze and DOS, the Lazarus project aims to provide a
> >> common RAD solution for Windoze and *nix :
> >
> > Will it be graphical in DOS too? What about fpGUI library? it is
> > written system independant. So you can make it working for DOS.
> > See fpGUI sources. Thre is a implementation layer for several
platforms.
>
> Last I heard the FreePascal stuff for DOS was fairly buggy, mostly due
> to lack of users. I was interested in using it as the basis of a CNC
> machine controller (port of TurboCNC), but the prospect of bugs in the
> tools and not much support turned me off of using it.
>
> CS
> --
> "Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know." -
> M. King Hubbert
>
Why DOS at all? Why not Windows console, if you needn't any gui? Why
not a GUI for interaction between user and CNC-control. A todays
computer has so much resources, that it can provide a graphical
frontend for the user. In your case i think, the user will be the
worker on the CNC machine. Why he should learn cryptical command line
options instead of clicking some buttons with his needed commands,
fired by clicking the buttons. Except that, wdosx in not so stable to
make it usable for a CNC machine. As a worker on such machine i demand
the safety, the machine will work for all the day in my working time.
Only if the machine works, i get money for the time.
Aren't teher suitable CNC programs for windows. On windoes console you
also can use any dos textmode gui interface, if you prefer it for your
work.