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

[Grant Edwards]

In article <8F7765F6DPaCmAnRDLM at 161.48.76.20>, Fred Pacquier wrote:
>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.

Newt was (AFAIK) written by RedHat for use in their installer
and system utils, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's pretty
Linux-centric.

>This stuff is certainly well-hidden and is hardly stumbled
>across of you don't already know of it :-)

Too true.  Newt and snack are both pretty nifty, but I've never
tried to use them on anything except Linux, and you probably
won't find them on non-RH-derived systems.

>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 :-)

If you want something easy to use, Tkinter is probably as
simple as anything (and certainly simpler than curses).

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