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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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>> 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?

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