On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:38 -0600, GrayShark wrote: > Once, many, many, years ago, I programmed some type of 'graphical' > interface on a VT200 terminal (only DEC VAX/VMS programmers are going to > know what this is). Question. What was the library I linked against? > Yes, you remember, painting boxes with ascii and the superset of ascii.
It was curses [ these days people typically use "ncurses" ]. There really isn't anything historic about it, it is used in many current projects/products - basically anything that will run in a gnome-terminal [such as YaST] uses ncurses. It works very well from Python. [for example: http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2010/01/python-curses-in-action-even-on-aix.html ] There are several higher level 'wrappers' for ncurses these days. Docs @ <http://docs.python.org/howto/curses.html> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
