Ashish Sharma: Boots Developments: Curses UI is nearing completion.
Curses UI for boots finally looks like its complete, although there is a feature missing( Explained in a previous post here).In short I will state curses UI as a new face for the already great drizzle shell boots. This face is a bit colorful too with syntax highlighting in the commands. Although the syntax highlighting has to be refined and modified for a better look. But it is still good.
After sharing curses UI details, its now the time to share a bit of my experience with it.
At first when I started to code the UI in curses I felt that it is going to be an easy job. All I had to do was emulate terminal with help of curses. But as I started, difficulties started to unfold. First, there are not much on-line materials available for reference on python curses. Even tutorials on C/C++ curses have not been updated for long. Second, debugging i! s case of an error is difficult and consumes a lot of time. Messages generated by python related to the error are mostly lost on testing on a simple terminal. This made me finally use winpdb for the purpose of debugging. Finally now the curses ui is nearing completion and I hope of completing it quickly.
The ui is available for review and testing at the launchapad branch.
URL: http://gsoc-boots-development.blogspot.com/2010/06/boots-developments-curses-ui-is-nearing.html
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