Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp From: grante AT visi DOT com (Grant Edwards) Subject: Re: Text (console) UIs for C/C++ (Linux and DOS) References: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) Lines: 25 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:25:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.98.98.8 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT visi DOT com X-Trace: ruti.visi.com 1027974301 209.98.98.8 (Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:25:01 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:25:01 CDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In article , Philip Pemberton wrote: >> 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. I believe that all of the apps you mention are shell scripts that use either a variant of the "dialog" utility (which runs on top of ncurses) or "whiptail" (a clone of dialog that runs on top of newt/slang). $ man dialog -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want the presidency at so bad I can already taste visi.com the hors d'oeuvres.