[Tutor] Curses programming

[Michael P. Reilly]

sill@optonline.net wrote
> Try looking at some existing curses-based application, I know that's hard but
> personally tutoring someone through a complete application, well, people who
> are *that* nice are probably too busy working for red cross. ;-)
> 
> OTOH I'm also meaning to start working on a curses-based irc client real-soon-
> now. I guess if I do get around to that, I could post incremental versions
> online, that's probably much easier to study by than looking at a huge
> completed program.

A couple of years ago I created an irc client that could handle (and comes
with) a tkinter and a curses interface, as well as dummy/batch interface.
It is probably overly complicated, but I designed it all as a framework,
not a specific client.

<URL: ftp://starship.python.net/pub/crew/arcege/Pyirc-1.5.1.tar.gz>

No docs, probably not a lot of comments, unfinished.  But it might give
you some ideas how to get curses working well, and how they match up
with GUI systems.

  -Arcege

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