On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : charva > Version : 1.0.1 > Upstream Author : Rob Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL or Web page : http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/ > * License : LGPL > Description : java windowing toolkit for text terminals > > Java framework for presenting a "graphical" user interface, composed of > elements such as windows, dialogs, menus, textfields and buttons, on a > traditional character-cell ASCII terminal. It has an API based on that > of "Swing" (a.k.a. the Java Foundation Classes). Programmers familiar > with AWT and Swing will find programming CHARVA straightforward. User > interfaces can be designed on WYSIWYG IDEs such as Borland JBuilder and > then easily converted to CHARVA merely by changing the "import" > statements to import the "charva.awt and "charvax.swing" packages > instead of the standard "java.awt" and "javax.swing" packages.
I was playing with this a few weeks ago. It's a shame it doesn't support mouse or keyboard. There are a few hits for mouse libraries in java text mode, but not many. The libgpm-dev interface looks simple enough, for someone who was interested.
