Hello everyone, I'm still working with old technologies and using VBDOS I haven't figured out yet how to use PICTUREBOX but I've made progress in reading and writing text manually, but now I have an idea of multitasking in DOS that's right, something unprecedented how the concept works Well the idea is to copy the concept of opening the command inside windows when you create several windows since windows 3.11 it is very simple in fact the project will have a new command button and ready your vbdos program will create a new window within the same program with the command embedded in your body. It will be exactly like the one below:

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I call this concept DOS in DOS because you will open several DOS windows, being able to execute whatever you want inside each one while editing the other one, this will make the development a lot easier the idea is not to be like windows or to have several options, it's actually several MSDOS programs that could be started through the console, so I could use several cool things like opening vbdos in one tab and in the other tab listening to music with some program for that, while running a third application, of course I'm aware of the limits and there will be applications that will be run at most in 2, but for small programs it is quite functional.


I need to consider a few things and as you guys have more experience than me because you lived at the time, I need a development base, let's go:

First question, how does command.exe work inside windows 3.11 that it opens in an MSWIN window the idea is to take advantage of this concept and recreate it in VBDOS.

I've already made several VBDOS forms and it's possible to create an MDI, I found this option within VBDOS but I don't know how to use maybe some way of calling the command to work.

The process of playing an application inside another requires what in practice, through frameworks I have the understanding, but I would like to know a more robust logic that would be the case of VBDOS.

Has anyone done something similar to run some vbdos application inside another one? when I use the RUN command it works, but it closes one and opens another the idea would be to run together, but instead of just vbdos any msdos, any ideas to cover?

With these concepts maybe this project would be possible and with that it would help in hobbies of several lovers like me of MSDOS.