From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 23:32:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3335B106566C for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:32:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E89078FC0C for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:32:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-37-253.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.37.253]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D3B3D012; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:32:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n2JNWOIi002003; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:32:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:32:24 +0100 From: Polytropon To: michael Message-Id: <20090320003224.ede9e63e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <49C2D40E.4080702@gmail.com> References: <20090320001352.caa9cc9e.freebsd@edvax.de> <49C2D40E.4080702@gmail.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:32:33 -0000 On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:23:58 -0400, michael wrote: > ok, i'm a bit drunk but from what i gather is that you want a purely > text mode form program? Yes. For X, I would have used Tcl/Tk for this quite simple purpose, or would have used Gtk with C. > ala, ncurses, or just text mode, as in the old > monochrome days? if so, i might be able to supply you with such. No no, ncurses is okay. In case I need to create this kind of dialog library myself, I would use ncurses because it seems to be the best "sub library" to create this kind of dialog means. You did already create such kind of functionality? Seems that I'm not the only insane programmer on earth. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...