From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 10:43:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA11369 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:43:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA11364 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:43:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA12878; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:42:18 -0800 (PST) To: Jerry Kendall cc: Peter Dufault , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xforms maintenance tools (was Re: Tcl/Tk sysinstall) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:28:36 EST." <96Feb27.093616est.20485-2@janus.border.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:42:18 -0800 Message-ID: <12876.825446538@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I have been working on a diskmaint utility to 'fdisk/disklabel' a newly > added drive to FreeBSD. I tried with 'dialog' and found it to be seriously > 'limiting'. Gave up on 'dialog'. Then tried to use 'Tcl/Tk' and found that > to be to cumbersome. The new dialog library (in -current) gives you considerably more flexibility, though I agree that it's still not the best. I was talking to jtc the other day and he mentioned that the new curses has menus and advanced controls - I haven't looked yet, but THAT sounds very promising! > Now I am using the xforms library and the fdesign gui builder... It looks > great and works very well. Have decided to write some other utilities > once I have finished the 'diskmaint' utility.. I just wish it were available in source form.. :-( Jordan