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#1 2012-01-26 13:31:50
Scratch as a GUI for DOS program?
Hello All,
I have a couple middle school students who wrote a successful DOS net messaging system. I want them to try to make a user interface for it. We are looking for a free program to create the interface and thought maybe Scratch could be a solution but I don't know enough about programming to know if there is a way to link the two together. If anyone could get me pointed in the right direction to know if this is possible with scratch and what resources to use as a guide I would be very grateful. Unfortunately right now the kids are stymied by the ignorance of their teacher 
Thanks
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#2 2012-01-26 13:33:25
- nickbrickmaster
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Re: Scratch as a GUI for DOS program?
It might be possible to make a dll and then mod scratch to interact with it.
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#4 2012-01-26 14:15:27
Re: Scratch as a GUI for DOS program?
As TRocket said. Once you have sockets for DOS, then you can enable Remote Sensors ( http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Remote … onnections ) and communicate through that.
DOS isn't really something you should use for creating programs in general. It's a good tool and all, but you shouldn't use it for projects.
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