Re: Is npyscreen still alive?

2023-04-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk via Python-list
On 4/24/23 11:32, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2023-04-24, Grant Edwards wrote: The other big advantage of an ncurses program is that since curses support is in the std library, a curses app is simpler to distribute. Right now, the application is a single .py file you just copy to the destination

Re: Is npyscreen still alive?

2023-04-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk via Python-list
On 4/24/23 09:14, Stefan Ram wrote: Grant Edwards writes: The other big advantage of an ncurses program is that since curses support is in the std library, a curses app is simpler to distribute. IIRC curses is not in the standard library /on Windows/. I miss a platform independent

Re: Is npyscreen still alive?

2023-04-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On 4/24/23 08:04, Grant Edwards wrote: > Is putty running on Windows a "modern terminal emulator" in this > context? After observing some of the local IT types work, I suspect > that will be a common use-case for the app I'm working on. Yes, Putty qualifies as a "modern terminal emulator." It

Re: Is npyscreen still alive?

2023-04-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-04-24, Mats Wichmann wrote: > On 4/24/23 10:32, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> However... I just realized that Python's curses support is missing two >> huge chunks: both menu and form support are not there. I guess that >> explains why people feel the need to write high-level UI wrappers for

Re: Is npyscreen still alive?

2023-04-24 Thread Mats Wichmann
On 4/24/23 10:32, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2023-04-24, Grant Edwards wrote: The other big advantage of an ncurses program is that since curses support is in the std library, a curses app is simpler to distribute. Right now, the application is a single .py file you just copy to the destination

Re: Is npyscreen still alive?

2023-04-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-04-24, Grant Edwards wrote: > The other big advantage of an ncurses program is that since curses > support is in the std library, a curses app is simpler to > distribute. Right now, the application is a single .py file you > just copy to the destination machine and run. It supports >

Re: Is npyscreen still alive?

2023-04-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-04-24, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 4/21/23 15:57, Barry wrote: > >> Maybe this, recently lwn.net article, >> https://textual.textualize.io/ I was planning to check it out. > > Textual definitely looks slick and modern. And with a modern > terminal emulator it works quite well and is

Re: Is npyscreen still alive?

2023-04-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On 4/21/23 15:57, Barry wrote: > Maybe this, recently lwn.net article, https://textual.textualize.io/ > I was planning to check it out. Textual definitely looks slick and modern. And with a modern terminal emulator it works quite well and is responsive. I'd definitely consider it for a TUI.

Re: Is npyscreen still alive?

2023-04-21 Thread Thomas Passin
On 4/21/2023 5:57 PM, Barry wrote: On 21 Apr 2023, at 22:00, Grant Edwards wrote: I recently googled across the ncurses application framework npyscreen, and was thinking about giving it a try for a small but real project (something that would be distributed to customers), but I'm a bit

Re: Is npyscreen still alive?

2023-04-21 Thread Barry
> On 21 Apr 2023, at 22:00, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I recently googled across the ncurses application framework npyscreen, > and was thinking about giving it a try for a small but real project > (something that would be distributed to customers), but I'm a bit > concerned that npyscreen no

Is npyscreen still alive?

2023-04-21 Thread Grant Edwards
I recently googled across the ncurses application framework npyscreen, and was thinking about giving it a try for a small but real project (something that would be distributed to customers), but I'm a bit concerned that npyscreen no longer "alive". The pypi page says the homepage is