Yes, Curses, how could I forget that. Thanks Steven
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:34:35 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > 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
