Virtual Panels helps you to create DOS-oriented Graphics User Interface for laboratory instrumentation that makes it easy and quick to write data acquisition applications which have state-of-the-art look and feeling. It is an object-oriented library of classes written for Borland C++ compiler with BGI graphics interface. It is designed so that you need only to declare what do you want to see on the screen and how do you want to feel it. It has become possible due to the object-oriented features of C++ language, so you have to be familiar with object-oriented programming and C++ to use Virtual Panels.
We chose C++ because it has become most popular and widely used object-oriented language today. BGI interface had been chosen because it provided us with all necessary facilities and is a standard de facto in Russia. Borland C++ optimizing compiler also becomes such a standard due to its low price, power and convenience of its IDE.