Re: is there any flashcard application, game or edu?

2007-03-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:38:42PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:23:43AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Maybe somebody knows this one: is there a game or educational
> > app that will popup a small frame with a question and space for
> > answer? Say: "What is the capitol of Kansas? or What is the cube
> > root of 8?
> > 
> > The questions and answers could be in a textfile:
> > 
> > #Q  #A
> > What is the capitol of Kansas?  Topeka
> > What is the cube root of 8? 2
> > 
> > I'm thinking of something very simple that could be expanded 
> > over time.  Linux has something that's pretty near what I'm
> > aiming for, but it breaks--I'm obviously missing some libraries.
> > After looking for four days I thought I'd ask here.
> > 
> > thanks for any clues,
> > 
> > gary
> > 
> > PS:  I could probably knock something out in a half hour using
> > /bin/sh but I'd rather have something more graphic and flexible.
> 
> You could check out curses/ncurses.   There is a man page.
> It might be overkill for what you want, but you can look.
> It takes some effort to get started, but is not too bad to
> keep adding to.
> 
> I actually just do this sort of thing in a quickie web page and
> run it through a browser.It only takes some simple tables.
> If you want to read in the answers, a Perl or PHP script will
> take care of it nicely.
> 

Yeah, I was thinking of exactly that; usring a random function
and php4 and some web pages:: quick and dirty//(half-clean?:-)
since I've already got that implemented.  Is there a tk/tcl
app to create popups on-the-fly?

Anyway, thanks for your insights,

gary


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Re: is there any flashcard application, game or edu?

2007-03-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:23:43AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:

> 
>   Maybe somebody knows this one: is there a game or educational
>   app that will popup a small frame with a question and space for
>   answer? Say: "What is the capitol of Kansas? or What is the cube
>   root of 8?
> 
>   The questions and answers could be in a textfile:
> 
>   #Q  #A
>   What is the capitol of Kansas?  Topeka
>   What is the cube root of 8? 2
> 
>   I'm thinking of something very simple that could be expanded 
>   over time.  Linux has something that's pretty near what I'm
>   aiming for, but it breaks--I'm obviously missing some libraries.
>   After looking for four days I thought I'd ask here.
> 
>   thanks for any clues,
> 
>   gary
> 
>   PS:  I could probably knock something out in a half hour using
>   /bin/sh but I'd rather have something more graphic and flexible.

You could check out curses/ncurses.   There is a man page.
It might be overkill for what you want, but you can look.
It takes some effort to get started, but is not too bad to
keep adding to.

I actually just do this sort of thing in a quickie web page and
run it through a browser.It only takes some simple tables.
If you want to read in the answers, a Perl or PHP script will
take care of it nicely.

jerry

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is there any flashcard application, game or edu?

2007-03-07 Thread Gary Kline

Maybe somebody knows this one: is there a game or educational
app that will popup a small frame with a question and space for
answer? Say: "What is the capitol of Kansas? or What is the cube
root of 8?

The questions and answers could be in a textfile:

#Q  #A
What is the capitol of Kansas?  Topeka
What is the cube root of 8? 2

I'm thinking of something very simple that could be expanded 
over time.  Linux has something that's pretty near what I'm
aiming for, but it breaks--I'm obviously missing some libraries.
After looking for four days I thought I'd ask here.

thanks for any clues,

gary

PS:  I could probably knock something out in a half hour using
/bin/sh but I'd rather have something more graphic and flexible.



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