I'm not a professional programmer, but I do a bit of programming for myself to
help manage databases at home, and also to help me understand the technology
(an
understanding I need for my work).
I've written a little Tkinter toolkit to help building the UI for apps which
use
SQLITE as the backend database. In testing apps built with the toolkit, I've
realized that there are snags with the apps when run using ssh across the
internet - 1. Needs X-windows support on the client, so generic Windows clients
need not apply 2. X-windows chatter.
I'm casting around for a (near) universal UI. Some testing seems to show that
URWID apps run nicely on any client with a terminal (xterm, DOS window, etc
etc)
with no special software (apart from ssh or Putty) needed at the client end.
So.....I can't seem to find any URWID examples showing how I might manage
database records in a fixed size terminal screen (say with a fixed header for
title, a display area for the record, and a fixed button bar as footer like
"<< < > >> Quit", something like a CICS screen, or like the old
Paradox record editor). The idea is that the URWID toolkit template would
configure the fixed size "terminal screen", the header and the button bar, and
the programmer would lay out the record in the display area.
Maybe someone has already done this (or similar)....but I haven't seen any
examples. Any thoughts?
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