| Is there a tool kit for curses?

| H.J.
| Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.

I have ported the dflat CUA user interface library from Al Stevens of
Dr Dobbs to use curses. The only problem is that it relies heavily on
a System V curses with keypad() and color support. Another problem with
it is that it is keyboard intensive with respect to Alt- keys and
CTRL- keypad keys etc. This may not work too well in the Unix
environment, especially on dumb terminals.

My intention is to provide a middle ground between plain old curses
which does not take advantage of the system console (color, mouse, a
plethora of keys), and the resource-intensive graphics environments
such as X or MGR. My goals are to provide mouse, color and use the nice
keys if they are available, but also still support dumb terminals. It
will be tough, but it is possible. It may turn out that I will drop
support for dumb terminals and support only the vt system console.

john stump (jstump@vnet.ibm.com)