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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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Date: | Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:18:03 GMT |
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
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>> I know of three: >> >> ncurses/CDK >> slang/newt >> TurboVision > [snip] > >> 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. > Hmm... At least it's another possibility. > >> CDK was approaching a decently usable state last time I messed >> with it (a few years ago). > CDK? The Curses Development Kit? Yup. [...] > It certainly seems to have a much better API than "raw" ncurses. That depends on whether you want a windowing library or a widget-set. Apparently you want the latter? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want DUSTIN at HOFFMAN!! ... I want visi.com LIBRACE!! YOW!!
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