rchao@well.UUCP (Robert Chao) (06/09/89)
I am developing a piece of software, and am looking for a screen manager package of utilities. I'd like to be able to do this for DOS and then port it over to UNIX. Does anyone have an recommendations? I've sent for info from Vermont Creative Software (UNIX is costly), Creative Programming (Vitamin C), Roundhill (Panel Plus II), JAM and Oakland C Tools (C-scape). Does anyone have any experiences with these or others? Thanks R. Chao
vic@zen.co.uk (Victor Gavin) (06/11/89)
In article <12079@well.UUCP> rchao@well.UUCP (Robert Chao) writes: > >I am developing a piece of software, and am looking for a screen manager >package of utilities. I'd like to be able to do this for DOS and then >port it over to UNIX. Does anyone have an recommendations? > We've got JAM for an HP840 and it isn't very good. I gave up on it and use curses on the Unix box and Bjorn Larrson's PCcurses on the PC. vic -- Victor Gavin Zengrange Limited vic@zen.co.uk Greenfield Road ..!mcvax!ukc!zen.co.uk!vic Leeds England +44 532 489048 LS9 8DB
djna1@hpopd.HP.COM (Dave Artus) (06/15/89)
/ hpopd:comp.lang.c / vic@zen.co.uk (Victor Gavin) / 4:22 pm Jun 11, 1989 / In article <12079@well.UUCP> rchao@well.UUCP (Robert Chao) writes: > >I am developing a piece of software, and am looking for a screen manager >package of utilities. I'd like to be able to do this for DOS and then >port it over to UNIX. Does anyone have an recommendations? > We've got JAM for an HP840 and it isn't very good. I gave up on it and use curses on the Unix box and Bjorn Larrson's PCcurses on the PC. vic -- Victor Gavin Zengrange Limited vic@zen.co.uk Greenfield Road ..!mcvax!ukc!zen.co.uk!vic Leeds England +44 532 489048 LS9 8DB ----------
djna1@hpopd.HP.COM (Dave Artus) (06/15/89)
/ hpopd:comp.lang.c / djna1@hpopd.HP.COM (Dave Artus) / 1:05 pm Jun 15, 1989 / In article <12079@well.UUCP> rchao@well.UUCP (Robert Chao) writes: > >I am developing a piece of software, and am looking for a screen manager >package of utilities. I'd like to be able to do this for DOS and then >port it over to UNIX. Does anyone have an recommendations? > We're using JAM, which appears to be available on a number of platforms including DOS and various unices. We found it to be more appropriate than curses for our applications. Top of our wish list would be a documented method of dynamically altering screen formats at run-time. This would permit us to cope more easily with running in windows of various sizes.
vic@zen.co.uk (Victor Gavin) (07/22/89)
In article <4080004@hpopd.HP.COM> djna1@hpopd.HP.COM (Dave Artus) writes: >hpopd:comp.lang.c / djna1@hpopd.HP.COM (Dave Artus) / 1:05 pm Jun 15, 1989 >In article <12079@well.UUCP> rchao@well.UUCP (Robert Chao) writes: >> >>I am developing a piece of software, and am looking for a screen manager >>package of utilities. I'd like to be able to do this for DOS and then >>port it over to UNIX. Does anyone have an recommendations? > >We're using JAM, which appears to be available on a number of platforms >including DOS and various unices. > >We found it to be more appropriate than curses for our applications. Top of >our wish list would be a documented method of dynamically altering screen >formats at run-time. This would permit us to cope more easily with running >in windows of various sizes. The problem I found with JAM (running on HP kit) was that it likes to do everything its own way -- having never heard of portability/compatability (for instance, it is another of these packages that requires its own terminal database.) Some other points are: * It doesn't like terminals with embedded attributes (like HP and Wyse terminals) * It is convoluted to program (eg the first character at the start of an action string determines what the action is and the rest of the string the name of the object to apply the action to.) * It places the menus/windows where ever it feels like on-screen. * The user interface is decidedly crummy * Doesn't support Unix very well -- eg Job control. All you've got is an action which will run a ``system command'' for you. Biggest problem with JAM -- the garbage user interface. Second biggest problem -- the lack of flexibility, you are continually constrained to what ever ideas the person who designed JAM could think of. vic -- Victor Gavin Zengrange Limited vic@zen.co.uk Greenfield Road ..!mcvax!ukc!zen.co.uk!vic Leeds England +44 532 489048 LS9 8DB