From: "Philip Pemberton" <philpem AT despammed DOT com>
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)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:53:59 +0100
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"Grant Edwards" <grante AT visi DOT com> wrote in message
news:pZc19.30286$eH2 DOT 12436140 AT ruti DOT visi DOT com...
> 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? I found a reference to that in GoogleGroups
earlier today - I've just finished printing off the examples for it. Now I'm
converting the manpages to PostScript and printing them off.

It certainly seems to have a much better API than "raw" ncurses. That and
it's LGPL'd which works out to my advantage (no "If you use this in your
program you must release your source code..." clause). Speaking of the LGPL,
I really need to read through it again... Anyone got a "No Legalese" copy of
it?

Thanks.
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Phil.
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