Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 16:45:40 +1100 (EST) From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text, menu/dialog/windowing, library, ideas? Message-ID: <199612020545.QAA15515@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: <24610.849499000@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 1, 96 07:56:40 pm"
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> > > libslang. in ports.
> >
> > Uhh, it does? I've just looked at it, and nowhere is there anything
> > that looks even remotely like a windowing library.
>
> Yeah, I was going to comment on this too. I think Julian is sorely
> confused - slang is an extention language like TCL, not a gui
> builder's aid like Tk. :-)
S-Lang is a C programmer's library that includes routines for the rapid
development of sophisticated, user friendly, multi-platform applications.
The S-Lang library includes the following:
Low level tty input routines for reading single characters at a time.
Keymap routines for defining keys and manipulating multiple keymaps.
High level screen management routines for manipulating both
monochrome and color terminals. These routines are very
efficient.
Low level terminal-independent routines for manipulating the display
of a terminal.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Routines for reading single line input with line editing and recall
capabilities.
Searching functions: both ordinary searches and regular expression
searches.
An embedded stack-based language interpreter with a C-like syntax.
A malloc debugging package
Agree it isn't exactly tcl/tk but it is the closest I've seen for
character based displays. This is the right answer, but now you
have me confused as to whether I have the right question ;)
-Julian A.
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