Advice sought: text-mode (but not CLI) apps in Windows consol e ?
Doug Stanfield
DOUGS at oceanic.com
Tue Jul 25 17:17:43 EDT 2000
I dug this answer out of my archive. Its a response from the eff-bot,
Fredrik Lundh, to a similar question some time ago:
> here's a small library which implements a thin layer on
> top of Windows' console API:
> http://w1.132.telia.com/~u13208596/console.htm
> </F>
-sorry-to-not-see-that-tag-around-here-anymore'ly yr's -Doug-
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fredp at mygale.org.nospam [mailto:fredp at mygale.org.nospam]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 10:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: Advice sought: text-mode (but not CLI) apps in Windows
> console ?
>
>
> ge at nowhere.none (Grant Edwards) said :
>
> >There is a nice widget set called newt (with a Python binding
> >called snack) that uses slang. If slang is available under
> >Win32, then it should be possible to use newt/snack.
>
> Thanks (again). Unfortunately, s-lang looks like it's
> cross-platform, but
> newt does not, unless I'm mistaken. This stuff is certainly
> well-hidden and
> is hardly stumbled across of you don't already know of it :-)
> Sadly, all this is much too cryptic for the sort of casual
> use I had in
> mind -- it would actually be faster for me to dig out the
> win32 extensions
> and do regular Windows, which I wanted to avoid in the first place :-)
>
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