On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 22:47:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 10/22/2012 3:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:> On 10/22/12
9:47 AM, Jens Mueller wrote:
>> This is probably interesting for Phobos. But I'm not the one
to make a
>> decision. The core Phobos developers should decide.
>> Hopefully somebody is reading this.
>
> Off the top of my head something that is specific for only
certain systems
> (Unixen in this case) is decidedly of less Phobos interest.
We could,
> nevertheless, put such functionality in system-specific
modules.
A module that only sets the console color is a little too light
to be a phobos entry.
A more comprehensive module that included:
1. getting mouse input
2. getting size of the console
3. moving the cursor around
4. drawing boxes in the console window
5. setting the contents of the title bar
6. supporting cut/paste
7. getting no-echo raw input
8. setting the size of the cursor
would be a definite candidate. I.e. a module that can support
building a text mode screen app (like a text editor).
This would look like a full blown TUI-Toolkit and we should model
the API
after successfull GUI-Frameworks like Qt, i.e. provide a event
loop, use
a Signal/Slot mechanism etc.
That would be a real improvement over nCurses. What do you think?
