Eddie -

Think I know exactly what your talking about and I have even researched this. In fact, even before kixforms was born, this idea of yours was the very first one i tried.

Correct me if im wrong, but what your suggesting is to "wrap" the kixscript in a virtual DOS console - instead of that bland old (real) DOS console. And to the script itself, it would be totally transparent. And when the script writes to the console using ?'s and ""'s - the output would go to the fancy GUI console (wrapper) instead of the real one. And maybe on "the side" of this console you could have special buttons that did neat things.

Believe me when I say that all this is possible, in fact its almost an ideal way to work this whole GUI script thing. There are even some freeware utilities available on the net that can do this. But heres the big problem - these wrappers only work with programs that read and write their output to stdout and stdin. In other words - well behaved DOS utilities. They work by intercepting or hooking-into the input and output streams.

Unfortunately (and I know this for a fact) Kixtart does NOT use these standard mechanisms. Kixtart writes directly to the DOS console using the Windows Console API's. That this is how it is able to support all those fancy cursor positioning (AT) and COLOR commands. It's also evidenced by the fact that Kixtart cant handle (support) redirection or stdin and stdout on the command line.

I've even gone so far as to try running Kixtart under one of these wrappers but with absolutely zero luck [Frown] Great suggestion though and maybe someone else on the board has heard of something that may work with Kixtart.

[ 16. January 2003, 23:53: Message edited by: Shawn ]