Christopher Subich wrote: > You're off by a decimal, though, an 80-column line > at 20ms is 4kbytes/sec.
D'oh! Yeah, I did hundredths of a second instead of thousands. > My guess is that any faster throughput than > 10kbytes/sec is getting amusing for a mud, which in theory intends for > most of this text to be read anyway. Which is why I don't think you'll have a problem with any of the standard GUI libraries. > That looks quite good, except that Trolltech doesn't yet have a GPL-qt > for Win32. Cost and license weren't listed as requirements. :) You *did* say "hobby" though in post-hoc justification, I've known people with some pretty expensive hobbies. > See the scrolling problem in the original post, as to why I can't use it > as a temporary user interface. :) Indeed, but MUDs 15 years ago could run in a terminal and display colored text via ANSI terminal controls, letting the terminal itself manage history and scrolling. I had some sort of TSR for the latter, under DOS. Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list