hnkst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Hanhwe N. Kim) (09/12/90)
Hi everyone, I need some help with a problem: There is a Sun running Interviews/X windows with g++ at school. I have a mac running a vt100 emulation at home and a ordinary vt100 terminal at my office. I'd like to write some object oriented programs with a text-only kind of interface so that I can edit/compile/test-run from a vt100 that dials up into the sun with InterViews/X. I would like to later write some GUI-type interfaces to those originally text-only interface programs. I intend to make the portability possible by defining seperate display-objects/internal-objects. Questions: 1) is there a text-only interface object library for g++ or InterViews for vt100 terminals that are connected through dialup lines with 9600 or 2400 baud? 2) can you use something like curses with the InterViews library? 3) can you use curses with g++? 4) is there a way to run X from a vt100? 5) suppose I write some text-based display-objects( curses-style ) windows etc. using curses and g++. When I get to the suns and run X, will I be able to test the text-only interface from one of the x-style GUI windows? 6) Are there any other people who sometimes have access to GUI x servers, and other times to only vt100 type text-only terminals that dialup to the same machines the servers are on, and want to write programs that run on both text-only terminals and x-servers? Any help would be appreciated. e-mail or post. If I get alot of mail with lots of good answers, I might summarize and post. -Thank you -Han