Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Installed libctk-3.0.25. The debian package doesn't work but the tarball >>> does: is the *console tool kit*. No longer supported though and no docs >>> at all. Is supposed to be a console API interface to gtk. Has sound support. >> >> I don't recall noticing this one before. Here's some commentary on it: >> >> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/45570 >> >> (summary: Linux-specific, no documentation, unsupported...) >>
> I am into libctk. I changed the headers to that you can invoke it from > C++. It is neat code! Written by Kevin Lindsay and Wesley Terpstra when > they were working for Stormix which went bellyup in 2001. > Neat idea guys! > Was orphaned in oct 2003: > http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/42/ That means it was dead upstream a while before... > The idea is supreme: a console interface to gtk. You can use anything > gtk API but it runs on the console. > It has not a scrap of docs or man. The examples show up some bugs and I > haven't figured out why yet. > Neither can I get the deb to run. I installed the tar and that runs. > There is no doubt that this is what Debian *should have* instead of why? - Debian should use working code, not an orphaned, undocumented demo. ( otoh, if you feel strongly enough about it, you can finish it ;-) > dialog, if it weren't for the bugs. You should really be able to use a > mouse when using make menuconfig, which uses a stripped version of dialog. no - lxdialog is actually a fork (which has been hacked at by several programmers without finding a suitable maintainer). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
