Have you looked at pdcurses? http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 3:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Text based menus on Win32 and *nix > > > > Hello all, > > I am currently writing an app that needs to be highly > portable between Win32 > and all flavors of Unix. I want to create a text based menu > system where > the user would see stuff like this: > > Please select what you want to do: > > -> 1) Delete the URL > 2) Modify the URL > 3) Keep the URL > > (All) So what's it going to be? > > I have looked at the possibility of running curses on Win32 > and that looks > completely nuts if not impossible. I came across an article > on a Google > search that says you can compile the curses library on Win32 > using Cygwin > but that sounds like it would be a hassle if I want to eventually use > something like perl2exe and just have one downloadable binary > for multiple > platforms. > > Some guy also wrote a promising looking app that creates an > abstraction > layer independent of what platform you are on. His page is at: > > http://www.catseye.mb.ca/perl/cabana.html > > The only thing is there are some dead links on his site and I > don't think it > will give me cursor control like my example above needs to be > able to do. > > So! Any ideas on what I can try / use that will give me the > functionality > and portability I need between both environments? > > Thanks, > > John > > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
