ANN: curses-extra 0.2

[David Fraser]

Riccardo Galli wrote:
> First official release :)
> 
> curses-extra offers various widgets wrotten using curses module.
> 
> In the module are presents the following classes and functions
> 
> Widget
>     Button
>     ButtonBar   #bar of buttons (manage automatically arrow keys)
>     CheckButton
>         RadioButton
>     CheckButtonList #list of checkbutton (as ButtonBar)
>     ComboBox
>     Menu
>     MenuBar
> 
> add_shortcut(pattern,action) #check combinations of keys, eg <ctrl>H
> use_shortcut(c,obj) #check if character is a shortcut, use it in case
>                     #NOTE: widgets auto-check shortcuts
> 
> chgat(win[,y,x],count,attr,color) #change attributes of an area
> 
> You can find it at
> http://www.sideralis.net/index.php?action=4&pjid=20
> 
> Suggestions about API or widgets' graphic are appreciated
> 
> Thanks,
> Riccardo
> 
Riccardo, this looks fantastic!
I wonder if it would be a good idea to look at some of the Python GUI 
wrappers that wrap multiple different GUIs.
PyGui is the main one:
http://nz.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/
and recently I saw this:
http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/twgui/

If you can have those approaches in mind when you design your API it may 
be possible to add curses-extra, so that an application can use a 
text-based GUI as an alternative!

David