From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Text (console) UIs for C/C++ (Linux and DOS)
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Date: 29 Jul 2002 12:07:21 GMT
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Philip Pemberton (philpem AT despammed DOT com) 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
: was thinking about using Turbo Vision (Linux port by SET) but that's
: distributed under the GNU GPL (the "if you use this in your program, you
: have to give away your source code" GPL). I need something that's licensed
: under the LGPL or a similar license (i.e. same as the GPL, except I can keep
: my code private). The project I'm working on will be distributed as
: commercial software ("payware"), so giving away my source code is NOT an
: option.

curses perhaps?

:     I was also thinking about Ncurses, but that has the most awful
: programming interface I've ever seen...

Oh well...


Right,

						MartinS