From owner-freebsd-java Thu Jun 20 5:32:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727D937B401 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 05:32:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dhcp068-64-151-24.nt01-c4.cpe.charter-ne.com ([24.151.64.68] helo=laredo.retrovertigo.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17L16x-0006vg-00; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 05:32:27 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@pobox.com To: Antony T Curtis , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stdin/console text input handling Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:32:23 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <3D11C367.9020908@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <3D11C367.9020908@ntlworld.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206200832.23605.absinthe@pobox.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday 20 June 2002 07:58am, Antony T Curtis wrote: > I have a curses-inspired library which I can write console programs with. > > It is incomplete... But it could be just what you need. > > It's written in 100% java... > > I also have an earlier sample which has JNI to a native curses library. Thank you (both you and Ernst de Haan). I did see the Java Curses Library on Sourceforge after Ernst replied -- checked it out briefly ... it is a series of classes interfacing with a C library (libjcurses) which gets built at compile time along with the docs and JAR, and depends on libcurses like you mentioned. The javadocs and method names are a little tough for me to follow, but that said, I'm only alive because of copious amts of coffee at the moment. It seems reasonably complete, but I still don't know most of what I'm looking at. The developer (Alexei Chmelev) seems very cool, but English clearly is not his native tongue. It compiles fine on FreeBSD; but I haven't tested it yet. [ http://sourceforge.net/projects/javacurses/ ] I would _definitely_ prefer a 100% Java solution, though. Absolutely. Consider me interested. Having that jcurses c library defeats the 'write-once and read-anywhere' goal... But anything is better than java.io.Reader. :) Cheers, -- Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message