[Gambas-user] text interface apps

[Steven revimmo]

Hi,

For a few (10?) years I programmed a small "windows" system in sh.
It had windows, texts, some widgets etc. So, I think as long as You can
do this in sh
(with a little help of the curses lib),
 you should be able to do it in gambas to. (Or just call the appropriate
shell routines.)

I'll try to find the source, and post it here if it's interesting
someone.

Steven



Le mercredi 12 août 2009 à 13:50 -0400, Rob a écrit :

> On Wednesday 12 August 2009 12:30 pm, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> > And yes: I don't think the special "graphical characters" like in DOS
> > (ASCII > 128) exist on a Linux terminal, do they? So it would be
> > somewhat difficult to build "mask" like things. Though Midnight
> > Commander can do this, how does it handle this? Maybe special fonts for
> > terminal output? And top has lines, too...
> 
> The ANSI extensions to ASCII include all those graphical characters (and 
> that's how they did them in DOS as well.)  Most modern terminal types 
> support ANSI, but you can't count on the user's font supporting them.  I 
> assume this is why some Linux console programs use +------+ to make lines 
> and corners instead of those box characters.
> 
> The way to do this, I think, would be to make a Gambas component that 
> implements as much of gb.form as possible using the ncurses library.  
> ncurses is lower level than gtk or Qt though (I'm not sure it even manages 
> its own event loop), so it would be a big project.  But Mono has it (see 
> MonoCurses) so it's certainly possible.
> 
> I seem to remember a Gtk-like toolkit that sat on top of ncurses, so maybe 
> if that's still being developed it would be an option.  Googling got me to 
> mytui, NDK++ and CDK, which are ncurses-based widget sets, but they haven't 
> been updated in a few years.  Then again, maybe someone trying to develop a 
> Gambas component could use that code as a starting point.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
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