kak@stc-auts.UUCP (Kris Kugel) (10/15/87)
I've been trying to create a menu/forms/popup package using curses, with some lack of success. The problems I've been having are because I don't have a good idea what the interface to the package should be. (I was doing this in liu of making a very specific set of routines for a single application) The kind of questions I had problems answering: Should the menu package be passed the curses window, or should it create it? should a menu have an independent display life? what is a adequate set of item addressing commands for menus? What is the best way of handling menus too large for a window? Where should error messages go? I didn't even try to attack the entry form software yet. Anyhow, suddenly it occured to me that OTHER PEOPLE MUST HAVE ALREADY TRIED THIS! >SO, Does anybody out there have software available to do this kind of thing? >If not, does anybody have good ideas on what the interfaces to the routines >should look like? Kris A. Kugel Storage Tek: ...{hao,nbires,ihnp4}!stcvax!stc-auts!kak High Country Software: ...{hao,nbires}!hicntry!kak P.S. I like the Suntools-type definitions, but don't know how to make machine-independent variable-argument subroutines.