aeichsta@athena.mit.edu (Andrew J. Eichstaedt) (02/23/90)
I need to do a fair amount of user interface programming for VT100-style/character based terminals. I need to be able to put windows up, read from them, write to them, and so on--essentially, curses-like capabilities. I have several different uses for such windows, of course, some for text entry/editing, some popup alert boxes and menus, and other such standard things. The fact that this sort of thing is so basic leads me to hope that there exists at least one C++ class library that does such things. I'd like to be able to define, say, an object of type PopupMenu that takes a list of menu choices, or an object of class StaticText to which the program can write text, or an object of type ConfirmAction that asks the user if that's really what should be done, or... Any pointers to such a library? Or, if not, any comments on the utility of a collection of these classes? It doesn't seem to me to be too difficult to build somthing like this over curses, so I might wind up taking on the job myself. If so, suggestions would be welcome. Andrew Eichstaedt AEichsta@Athena.MIT.EDU