On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:36:31AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:01 -0700, Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: > > Consider looking at dialog(3), which rides on top of ncurses. > > There's also a CLI utility by the same name handy for shell-scripting > > purposes. > > Allthough dialog does come with the basic means I did describe, > it looks a bit... bulky? I don't want to sound impolite, but > consider the width of > > +------------+ > Name: | | > +------------+ > > to > > Name: ____________ > > which would be more... elegant. But "man dialog" is very interesting. > It even offers functionalities (lists, yes/no buttons etc.) that > I haven't thought of. > > Thank you, I'll take this into mind.
Another alternative might be the form(3) library which also is built on top of ncurses. It seems to be a bit more cumbersome to use than dialog(3) but is probably somewhat closer to what you were looking for. If you look around a bit on the web you can probably find several tutorials and references for both curses as well as the form, menu. and panel libraries that are usually included with most curses implementations (including ncurses.) See for example http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/ -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
