Advice sought: text-mode (but not CLI) apps in Windows console ?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <slrn8nbsj3.chd.cjc26 at synecdoche.sowrong.org>, Cliff Crawford wrote:

>| Since then I have been through what I believe to be a reasonably thorough 
>| Web search (from Parnassus outwards) to find something to get me started, 
>| and have turned up precious little. Various Python bindings of curses or 
>| ncurses exist, but can one run curses itself under Win 9x ? Or are there 
>| other, well-hidden libraries or modules that do more or less the same thing 
>| on that platform ? (I'm not asking for something as high-level and 
>| extensive as the Borland OWL of old :-)
>
>You may be able to compile curses using cygwin/djgpp.  Also, there
>is another library called S-Lang which you could use, and I believe
>there is a port for it for Windows.

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.

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