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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 <ai46vb$1154hr$1 AT ID-122086 DOT news DOT dfncis DOT de>, Philip Pemberton wrote:

>> That depends on whether you want a windowing library or a
>> widget-set.  Apparently you want the latter?
>
> It would seem that way. I thought ncurses provided "put a
> button here" and "put some text here" type routines. Until I
> saw the manpages. Ideally I want something like the widget set
> used in MandrakeSoft's installer, as used on Linux-Mandrake 6.1
> (IIRC), codename Helios. Or the widget set used by the
> Slackware 8.1 installer - they both look shockingly similar.
> Same goes for the widget set used by the "make menuconfig"
> option in the Linux kernel.

I believe that all of the apps you mention are shell scripts
that use either a variant of the "dialog" utility (which runs
on top of ncurses) or "whiptail" (a clone of dialog that runs
on top of newt/slang).

$ man dialog

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