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 20:59:48 +0100
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"Grant Edwards" <grante AT visi DOT com> wrote in message
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> >> CDK was approaching a decently usable state last time I messed
> >> with it (a few years ago).
> > CDK? The Curses Development Kit?
> Yup.
>
> [...]
>
> > It certainly seems to have a much better API than "raw" ncurses.
> 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.

Later.
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