On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:38:42PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:23:43AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> >
> > Maybe somebody knows this one: is there a game or educational
> > app that will popup a small frame with a question and space for
> > answer? Say: "What is the capitol of Kansas? or What is the cube
> > root of 8?
> >
> > The questions and answers could be in a textfile:
> >
> > #Q #A
> > What is the capitol of Kansas? Topeka
> > What is the cube root of 8? 2
> >
> > I'm thinking of something very simple that could be expanded
> > over time. Linux has something that's pretty near what I'm
> > aiming for, but it breaks--I'm obviously missing some libraries.
> > After looking for four days I thought I'd ask here.
> >
> > thanks for any clues,
> >
> > gary
> >
> > PS: I could probably knock something out in a half hour using
> > /bin/sh but I'd rather have something more graphic and flexible.
>
> You could check out curses/ncurses. There is a man page.
> It might be overkill for what you want, but you can look.
> It takes some effort to get started, but is not too bad to
> keep adding to.
>
> I actually just do this sort of thing in a quickie web page and
> run it through a browser. It only takes some simple tables.
> If you want to read in the answers, a Perl or PHP script will
> take care of it nicely.
>
Yeah, I was thinking of exactly that; usring a random function
and php4 and some web pages:: quick and dirty//(half-clean?:-)
since I've already got that implemented. Is there a tk/tcl
app to create popups on-the-fly?
Anyway, thanks for your insights,
gary
> ////jerry
>
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> >
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