[GLLUG] Linux forms

[Matt Graham]

On Tuesday 23 September 2003 09:59, after a long battle with technology, 
Gary Holbrook wrote:
> I would really like to build a "Green Screen" type application for
> linux, but have not found many options for the software.  For
> example, one could use Ncurses, but it's a little lower level than I
> would like to use.  I could use PHP and restrict Lynx options, but
> that's basically a web application...any other ideas?

"dialog" allows you to create various dialog boxes from a shell script.  
The kernel's "make menuconfig" uses dialog to do its thing.  I could 
swear there's a higher-level ncurses-type thing for Perl... (CPAN) 
http://search.cpan.org/author/CORLISS/CursesForms-1.997/Forms.pm ?  
Don't know about C libraries/sets, but a quick search on freshmeat.net 
for "curses form" may find you something.

Oh yeah, everything can do 16-color now, so jazz up that greenscreen 
with some gray/blue/red.  HTH,

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