Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 15:02:36 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, brandon@cold.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what 'dialog' library is used with sysinstall and what not? Message-ID: <199702261402.PAA05079@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <25882.856953492@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Feb 26, 97 02:38:12 am"
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote:
> > tvision is unusable on with a sane terminal setting like cons25l1
> > (which IMHO should be the default for syscons) or with pcvt or an
> > xterm. libdialog is at least terminal independent.
>
> libdialog is a terminal independent P.O.S. (no explanation of that
> acronym should be necessary :) and I've gone as far as I can go with
> it - it MUST go.
No argument there :)
> In any case, the point is moot. I've been waiting for 2 years for a
> usable CUI library, it's not appeared, and this library is the first
> serious attempt I've ever seen at trying to make the whole CUI
> interface usable. The other attempts just took a GUI framework and
> attempted to cram it into a CUI imitation, something which generally
> results in a truly horrible looking interface. libtvision looks
> pretty darn good, considering the limitations it has to work under,
> and it's *really really* easy to write code for. I'm sold, I'm
> using it in sysinstall II (setup), better get used to the idea. :-)
Erhm, what about the somewhat funny license tvision is under ??
I dont like that is has been copythefted, the original seems to
be free for the taking (Havn't seen any actual Borland docs though)
and now pieces are GPL'd :( :(. If this is resolved I have absolutely
no problems with it (hey it could even be used as an API to a GUI for
those with "real" videocards, I could be talked into doing some
of that, remember)
Anybody have a pointer to the genuine Borlan turbo vision 2.0 this
is taken from ??
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Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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