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[Pnet-developers] pnetcurses - extending this library for more support
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Christopher Sawyer |
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[Pnet-developers] pnetcurses - extending this library for more support |
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Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:10:51 -0500 |
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Hi.
I have found great interested in building up more functionality in pnetcurses.
Namely, it is lacking hooks into common functions like wgetyx(), etc. I have
added these and would like to submit them for comment to the original source
to whomever is maintaining it.
I am busy building a .NET OO->pnetcurses->curses wrapper library to make
developing complex console apps using C#/VB.NET a lot easier (hint: think
TurboVision in the days of DOS+Pascal). However, I needed more exposure in
the pnetcurses wrapper to underlying functionality to get better control over
the terminal. The wrapper currently works under both Mono and DotGNU and
I've already completed 6 different widgets and am working on more.
I have often run into the problem where I need to develop an application
around a complex background process, but I don't need/want the complexity of
IIS/Apache and would rather ssh in, sign on, pick something on a menu to let
it run, then get out. I don't think console apps will ever go away, and
certainly they are helpful for rapid admin tasks and providing legacy
data-entry interfaces for those who prefer to work keyboard-only.
--Christopher Sawyer
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