snack

[Darren Young]

Yep, the one that anaconda uses. So let me get this straight, snack for
python is an interface to newt that provides widgets for slang?

I guess the only module you actually need from python is snack then? If that
works, then the rest is good to go...


Grant Edwards wrote:

> In article <39B0068A.7A0464DE at younghome.com>, Darren Young wrote:
>
> >The graphics thingy, didn't even know it was an interface to newt.
>
> Graphics?
>
> Doesn't sound like the "snack" module I've used -- it's just a
> wrapper for RedHat's "newt" library that impliments a text-mode
> widget set on top of the slang library.  (Snack is probably
> most familiar as the text-mode UI in the RedHat installer.)
>
> If _that's_ the snack for which you want examples, there are
> two fairly good examples called "peanuts.py" and "popcorn.py"
> in the newt source distribution.  I don't know if it's still
> the latest version, but you can get 0.50 at
>
>      ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/grante/stuff/newt-0.50.tar.gz
>
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