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From: gohyongkwang AT hotmail DOT com (Goh, Yong Kwang)
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Subject: Looking for Simple, Complete and Standalone GUI/TUI Library for DJGPP
Date: 28 Jun 2004 23:06:52 -0700
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Hi.

I'm currently looking for a relatively complete and easy to implement
GUI/TUI library to spice up my application.

What I'm looking for in the library is:
- simplicity
- standalone

Simplicity means it can be learnt pretty fast, say in an hour or 2 by
looking at some source code snippet and probably a tutorial. I don't
have much time to flash out an impressive GUI but a GUI is still
better than plain command line.

As for standalone, it should be a complete package on its own w/o
relying on other graphics library. I saw how good but complex ones
like OpenGUI, Sword and DEGUI seems to have to rely on Allegro, GRX
and probably SVGALib. I think they need plenty of time to learn,
install (having to download and resolve all the conflicts/versioning
problems while compiling and building the library) and use. I hope to
have a standalone and complete GUI/TUI package that I can just unzip
and then run "make" to build it into a library for me to link in.

Of course, I hope I can crank up an VGA interface like what I see in
XOSL (eXtended Operating System Loader) but maybe a simple textual
user interface (TUI) library would also suffice. So far, the more
plausible ones are JPTUI and TurboVision TUI. Maybe there's a Curse
library that may be helpful but I don't know Curse now. I just checked
out www.delorie.com for Files on Other Sites and many links are
already broken. I believe a lot of the libraries and projects are
already abandoned and no longer maintained actively. So finding the
libraries to download and good references to learn how to use them is
kind of hard now.

Any more libraries to recommend? Thanks!

Goh, Yong-Kwang
Singapore