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From:	grante AT visi DOT com (Grant Edwards)
Subject:	Re: Text (console) UIs for C/C++ (Linux and DOS)
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In article <ai2q1i$10pqss$1 AT ID-122086 DOT news DOT dfncis DOT de>, Philip Pemberton wrote:

> I'm currently trying to find a reasonably good cross-platform
> (Linux/gcc and DOS/djgpp) text (console) mode user interface
> library for C or C++.

I know of three:

 ncurses/CDK
 slang/newt
 TurboVision

You've apparently don't like the ncurses interface, and the
TurboVision license is a problem.

Newt is pretty handy for simple apps, but it's rather limited,
since it uses a "stack" of windows and only the top window is
active.  Documentation is lacking and some of the examples take
a bit of work to figure out.

CDK was approaching a decently usable state last time I messed
with it (a few years ago).

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