epeterso@encore.com (Eric Peterson) (09/26/90)
I'm working on a project that will be running on X-terminals as well
as dumb ASCII ones, and I'd like to keep the look and feel
(keystrokes, menus, boxes, and other behavior) consistent between the
two different types of terminals. What I'm looking for is a library,
possibly Curses-based, that will allow me the behavior of the Client
Area on a character terminal.
I'm not interested in a full-implementation of Motif for a character
terminal, nor am I interested in simulating the mouse pointer on the
screen (as some MS-DOS applications that support mice do). What I'm
primarily interested in is keeping the keyboard accelerators,
mnemonics, and menus consistent. Other special features such as
slider bars, push buttons, and dialog boxes would be nice, but the
aren't that critical.
I know I'm doing some heavy wishful thinking, but does such a package
exist? If not, is there a library that will at least give me some
menu and windowing support beyond the primitives offered by Curses.
Please reply via E-mail ... If there is interest, I'll summarize.
Followups to comp.unix.misc, as I'm not a c.w.x.m regular reader.
PS: Running it under an xTerm is *not* what I had in mind to keep it
consistent :-)
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In article <epeterso.654295938@houligan> epeterson@encore.com (Eric Peterson) writes: >I'm working on a project that will be running on X-terminals as well >as dumb ASCII ones, and I'd like to keep the look and feel >(keystrokes, menus, boxes, and other behavior) consistent between the >two different types of terminals. What I'm looking for is a library, >possibly Curses-based, that will allow me the behavior of the Client >Area on a character terminal. Look into XVT. It is a development library for Motif, MS Windows, Macintosh, and character based terminals (both unix and DOS). You develop one program and link link it with the appropriated library to use whichever interface you want. Cost is not cheap, but there are no royalties. I have the contact info at work, so if you can't find it, send me email. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170