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From: | steve AT dosius DOT zzn DOT com (Dosius) |
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Subject: | Re: Linux compatible text dialogs? |
Date: | 21 Feb 2003 08:18:15 -0800 |
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Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au> wrote in message news:<t3ub5vk2knqec9nmp5kjohn8ggclo2vdpr AT 4ax DOT com>... > >how does one create "graphical" text interfaces that can easily be ported > >to/from Linux? I think that I want something like a combination of the > >curses and dialog libs. Looking through DJGPP's package lists I found > >dlg09 which says it needs ncurses and pdcur24 that only seems to be > >curses. Will this combination work or are there better alternatives? > > The other option for text windowing library is TV 2.01 - aka Turbo > Vision Text windowing library originally from Borland and available > for DJGPP, MSVC, Linux text and Linux X. > > The other option is PDCurses - grab it from the developers site as the > one in the V2Tk directory is and old version. > > If you want true graphics cross platform library check out Allegro. > > Andrew I've seen programs that won't compile with PDCurses - they *require* ncurses. Then again I don't know how portable ncurses is unless it's forced to use Eric S. Raymond's giant termcap/terminfo database and "set term=ansi.sys" (btw, this is how to use Gunnar Ritter's version of vi [with its own libterm] under djgpp as well). -uso.
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