Re: [O] OT: TUI applications

2017-10-20 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2017-10-18, at 18:47, Russell Adams wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:55:26AM -0500, Grant Rettke wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Russell Adams >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/widget.html > > That's

Re: [O] OT: TUI applications

2017-10-18 Thread Russell Adams
Tim, While I appreciate the insight, Tk and web apps are outside the scope of what I'm looking for. I've used Tk with Python and Perl and don't care for it. I value the low overhead, speed, and simplicity of terminal applications. I use Mutt for all my email, and the only GUI app I use with

Re: [O] OT: TUI applications

2017-10-18 Thread Tim Cross
There is actually lots of these frameworks and libraries in many different languages, so it really depends on what you are most comfortable working in. I have used both Emacs forms and widgets in the past. For example, I've used forms as an intermediate step between emacs and a backend store

Re: [O] OT: TUI applications

2017-10-18 Thread Russell Adams
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:55:26AM -0500, Grant Rettke wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Russell Adams > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/widget.html  That's cool! I didn't realize that Emacs had some of that built in. I'll read up on

Re: [O] OT: TUI applications

2017-10-18 Thread Grant Rettke
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Russell Adams wrote: > Given the unique user base of Org, I wanted to ask a question. > > Has anyone seen any modern development libraries for TUI (console / > character cell) applications? Ncurses the library is > not an answer as you

Re: [O] OT: TUI applications

2017-10-18 Thread Russell Adams
Allan, On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 09:58:31AM -0400, Allan Streib wrote: > > Has anyone seen any modern development libraries for TUI (console / > > character cell) applications? > > There's Console Framework[1] if you like C# and .NET/Mono. Anything Windows oriented is not what I'm looking for. I

Re: [O] OT: TUI applications

2017-10-18 Thread Allan Streib
> Has anyone seen any modern development libraries for TUI (console / > character cell) applications? There's Console Framework[1] if you like C# and .NET/Mono. Or maybe npyscreen[2] is more what you're looking for? 1. https://elw00d.github.io/consoleframework/ 2.

[O] OT: TUI applications

2017-10-18 Thread Russell Adams
Given the unique user base of Org, I wanted to ask a question. Has anyone seen any modern development libraries for TUI (console / character cell) applications? Ncurses the library is not an answer as you have to start from scratch. There are thousands of web frameworks, and yet console is