Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:26:14 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO Message-ID: <20090320012614.4a2c7cac.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090319235854.GA54530@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20090320001352.caa9cc9e.freebsd@edvax.de> <8D8F5660-B420-45D9-902E-13CEA49B53C9@mac.com> <20090320003631.506c5a5c.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090319235854.GA54530@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:58:54 +0100, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > Another alternative might be the form(3) library which also is built on top > of ncurses. It seems to be a bit more cumbersome to use than dialog(3) but > is probably somewhat closer to what you were looking for. > > If you look around a bit on the web you can probably find several tutorials > and references for both curses as well as the form, menu. and panel > libraries that are usually included with most curses implementations > (including ncurses.) See for example > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/ Wow, I'm impressed: forms at least gives a good toolkit for what I need, and CDK (curses development kit) is even in the ports. It's examples are very interesting, it seems to be what I need. The world is safe, I won't reinvent the wheel. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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