On 2010-07-28, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollans.com> wrote: > It might be possible to write a curses-compatible library that works > with cmd.exe. Maybe. But, even if it's possible, I don't think it's > easy, and I especially don't think it would be particularly rewarding.
http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/ It would be rewarding as it would make writing cross-platform charactor mode applications possible. Using curses for the interface makes a lot of sense because it is already supported by almost every Unix/POSIX platorm, so re-implementation is only required for those odd platforms (Windows) where it does not exist natively,; because well documented on the internet and in print; and because a huge number of people are already familiar with its API. If licensing permits, I don't think it would be too difficult difficult to embed something like pdcurses into the existing curses module to use as a backup for platforms where curses does not already exist. If not, there cannot be much difference to writing a terminal emulator that runs inside the windows console and there are a *huge* number of terminal emulators available for ansi/vt100 terminals. Add a termcap database mechanism and an embedded emulator can easily convert the excape codes into actions for the console. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
