Sean, I doubt that exactly what you want has been built by anyone. But you could certainly use urwid to implement it yourself!
If anyone else on this list has seen any urwid project resembling what you describe, I'm sure they'll speak up. ~ Nathan On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Sean Doull-Connolly <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > _______________________________________________ > Urwid mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.excess.org/mailman/listinfo/urwid > >
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