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Re: Any windowing system in text mode?



On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:00:44PM +0800, ramsubs wrote:
> If I wanted to write an app which runs on a pseudo windowing system in
> text mode, what tools do I use?  By this, I mean something similar to
> Foxpro for DOS which has a windowing system running in DOS mode where
> you can drag windows around, able to pop up dialog boxes, uses gpm-type
> mouse, and so on...

Do you want to use an existing toolkit for this "text gui" or are you
going to write your own?

If you're writing your own, you can do it all with (n)curses or s-lang.

MG

-- 
Matt Garman, garman@uiuc.edu
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 working time of every efficient member of a community goes to feed 
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