Bug#203187: ITP: charva -- java windowing toolkit for text terminals
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : charva
> Version : 1.0.1
> Upstream Author : Rob Pitman <rob@pitman.co.za>
> * URL or Web page : http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/
> * License : LGPL
> Description : java windowing toolkit for text terminals
>
> Java framework for presenting a "graphical" user interface, composed of
> elements such as windows, dialogs, menus, textfields and buttons, on a
> traditional character-cell ASCII terminal. It has an API based on that
> of "Swing" (a.k.a. the Java Foundation Classes). Programmers familiar
> with AWT and Swing will find programming CHARVA straightforward. User
> interfaces can be designed on WYSIWYG IDEs such as Borland JBuilder and
> then easily converted to CHARVA merely by changing the "import"
> statements to import the "charva.awt and "charvax.swing" packages
> instead of the standard "java.awt" and "javax.swing" packages.
I was playing with this a few weeks ago. It's a shame it doesn't support
mouse or keyboard.
There are a few hits for mouse libraries in java text mode, but not many. The
libgpm-dev interface looks simple enough, for someone who was interested.
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