Hi all! This is the thing. I use a program called PLDShell Plus in my digital system's class. The program is very old dated and runs in DOS. I can run it under winxp but when running it windowed is somewhat slow and fullscreen is a problem when I want to switch tasks.
Then the idea hit me, making a gui for the program. In fact, when you execute PLDShell it's just a DOS interface (like a menu) from there, you call individual programs (like EDIT to edit the source files) So a gui for it should be able to open text files, save them and call the compiler.
I just dont know how to call external programs and how to redirect output from the compilers exe to a control in my gui. Any suggestions? BTW I can use Borland C++ or C# maybe even VB.NET but I'll try to avoid it.
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Hi all! This is the thing. I use a program called PLDShell Plus in my digital system's class. The program is very old dated and runs in DOS. I can run it under winxp but when running it windowed is somewhat slow and fullscreen is a problem when I want to switch tasks.
Then the idea hit me, making a gui for the program. In fact, when you execute PLDShell it's just a DOS interface (like a menu) from there, you call individual programs (like EDIT to edit the source files) So a gui for it should be able to open text files, save them and call the compiler.
I just dont know how to call external programs and how to redirect output from the compilers exe to a control in my gui. Any suggestions? BTW I can use Borland C++ or C# maybe even VB.NET but I'll try to avoid it.
Thanks!
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