Re: NT_Console in linux?

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>]

Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
...
> distribution, to do what you want.  There exists an Ada binding to
> ncurses somewhere; I think it is part of the ncurses source tarball
> itself, but I'm not aware of any GNU/Linux distribution that carries
> it as a precompiled package (they only carry the C interface).

not according to the files listed for the Debian development package:

http://packages.debian.org/stable/libdevel/libncurses5-dev

> You can write your program with ncurses on GNU/Linux, then port it to
> Windows using PDCurses[1].  You will also have to port the Ada
> binding, but that seems easy.

Some of the source is generated by shell scripts.

> if you run Debian or a derivative thereof.  Texttools provides a
> higher-level interface, with buttons, menus etc. which will be easier
> to program than ncurses, and will even allow you to support the mouse.
> Because texttools runs on top of ncurses, you can also port your
> program to Windows using PDCurses.

PDCurses' mouse interface differs from ncurses (again, some work needed)

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