Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 02:38:12 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: brandon@cold.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what 'dialog' library is used with sysinstall and what not? Message-ID: <25882.856953492@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:52:07 %2B0100." <199702260952.KAA10383@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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> tvision is unusable on with a sane terminal setting like cons25l1 > (which IMHO should be the default for syscons) or with pcvt or an > xterm. libdialog is at least terminal independent. libdialog is a terminal independent P.O.S. (no explanation of that acronym should be necessary :) and I've gone as far as I can go with it - it MUST go. tvision works just great with cons25 (which is the default I've always used and will continue to use especially if cons25l1 is broken with tvision :-) and with an standard xterm - it looks not nearly so nice as in a color-xterm, sure, but I'd hardly call it "unusable." I've run many of the demos in monochrome mode and they're perfectly drivable. Certainly no worse than libdialog in monochrome, which I've also tested, given its penchant for using colors which just about disappear on freefall's Hercules graphics card. In any case, the point is moot. I've been waiting for 2 years for a usable CUI library, it's not appeared, and this library is the first serious attempt I've ever seen at trying to make the whole CUI interface usable. The other attempts just took a GUI framework and attempted to cram it into a CUI imitation, something which generally results in a truly horrible looking interface. libtvision looks pretty darn good, considering the limitations it has to work under, and it's *really really* easy to write code for. I'm sold, I'm using it in sysinstall II (setup), better get used to the idea. :-) Jordan
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