elvy@harvard.UUCP (Marc Elvy) (06/06/84)
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I am wondering if anyone has put together a package of screen
management facilities which run under UNIX. After sitting up night
after night hard-coding coordinates into "curses" programs, I find myself
wishing that there were something under UNIX which functions like the
CMS "Display Management System" (DMS). This program allows one to
interactively define a window (by putting text into a screen) consisting
of prompts (text strings) and variables (which can be restricted by
type and by range). The defined "window" is then called by a PL/I
program, and the package takes care of all the dirty work.
While something this sophisticated is not necessary, it would
certainly be nice if there were a package which enabled one to define
windows by typing a picture onto a screen and specifying what kinds
of variables should be read where. This would eliminate the hours
of BORING programming which must be done to provide a nice, terminal-
independent, full-screen interface to a program.
I welcome any hints, rumors, or suggestions.
Marc
Marc A. Elvy ( elvy@harvard )
({genrad,allegra,ihnp4,ima}!wjh12!harvard!elvy)
Aiken Computation Laboratory
Harvard University