Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-20 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:13:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: For a special application, I need a programmable dialog library that has... well, how to describe it... anyone know SIOS? Or at least TSO? A bit like this. A kind of form-driven screen layout. Besides dialog(3), there's also a C++

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-20 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:34:52 +0100, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Besides dialog(3), there's also a C++ class library that emulates Borland's Turbo Vision's SAA interface. Two implementations are in ports: devel/rhtvision devel/tvision Ugh! :-) The day I got a TurboPascal 7.0 box

Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-19 Thread Polytropon
Dear list, I'm searching for something really strange, maybe some reader will be able to tell me what I'm searching for. :-) For a special application, I need a programmable dialog library that has... well, how to describe it... anyone know SIOS? Or at least TSO? A bit like this. A kind of

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Polytropon wrote: I'm searching for something really strange, maybe some reader will be able to tell me what I'm searching for. :-) For a special application, I need a programmable dialog library that has... well, how to describe it... anyone know SIOS? Or at least

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-19 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:23:58 -0400, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: ok, i'm a bit drunk but from what i gather is that you want a purely text mode form program? Yes. For X, I would have used Tcl/Tk for this quite simple purpose, or would have used Gtk with C. ala, ncurses, or

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-19 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:01 -0700, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Consider looking at dialog(3), which rides on top of ncurses. There's also a CLI utility by the same name handy for shell-scripting purposes. Allthough dialog does come with the basic means I did describe, it looks a

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-19 Thread michael
Polytropon wrote: Dear list, I'm searching for something really strange, maybe some reader will be able to tell me what I'm searching for. :-) For a special application, I need a programmable dialog library that has... well, how to describe it... anyone know SIOS? Or at least TSO? A bit like

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:36:31AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:01 -0700, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Consider looking at dialog(3), which rides on top of ncurses. There's also a CLI utility by the same name handy for shell-scripting purposes. Allthough

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-19 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:58:54 +0100, Erik Trulsson ertr1...@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.