Widget set for curses?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <slrn84rktg.v8c.wtanksle at hawking.armored.net>, William Tanksley wrote:

>>Are there any python widget sets that use curses (or slang)?
>
>I think Redhat uses one called 'newt'.  It's not extremely
>functional or anything.

I'll have to try that -- IIRC, newt is what the text-mode RedHat
install utility uses, so that should be fine for what I want to
do.

>There's a Curses port of wxWindows which works with
>1.something; if you used that, you'd have a good chance of
>working with graphical displays as well, when possible.

That's probably overkill.  I expect that what I'll end up with
is a limited UI for text-mode version, and a more flexible one
with a Pmw UI if X is running.  (There are two distince groups of
end-users for the program.)

>>Simple stuff like radio buttons, entry fields, buttons... I was
>>hoping for something like the newt or cdk libraries.

>CDK is just about the neatest thing I've seen for curses.  A
>Python port would be tres cool.  And then also a more
>sophisticated OO Python port.

I worked on a CDK-based project (in C) for a while during the
summer, and it has potential.  I had a mostly complete
generalized screen traversal engine that worked, but I'd only
added the required support methods to a handful of the widgets.
Most of the widgets didn't work right when they didn't have a
border, and I hadn't gotten all of those fixed either.

Then I changed jobs...

CDK is partially object oriented already, and that needs to be
extended to more of the widget functionality.

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