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From: Juergen.Pfeifer@t-online.de (Juergen Pfeifer)
Subject: Re: Terminal IO, and menus
Date: 1999/04/04
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Jerry van Dijk wrote:
> 
> Juergen Pfeifer (Juergen.Pfeifer@t-online.de) wrote:
> 
> : Well, I'm very interested too. Of course I first suggest to port (n)curses
> : to DOS and Win32, which will be more simple with one of the next releases
> : of ncurses which redesigns some of the internals to base it on a "driver"
> : logic. This will make it very fast and thin on memory mapped devices like
> : DOS or Win32 consoles. For Ada you may then use the ncurses binding as
> : your cross-platform console I/O package that works on DOS, OS/2, Win32
> : and almost all UNIXes.
> 
> Well, there is at least a pdcurses binding available, and I believe also
> an ncurses (check the PAL). However, I think that however useful, ncurses
> has a steep learning curve, if you do not know the curses library. SLANG
> (also now available on more than linux) might be another option. In any
> case the problem will be Ada-based documentation and some example programs.
> 
The PAL version of ncurses binding is completely out of date and I know that
because I'm the author:-) I agree that (n)curses is a  bit hard to learn,
but instead building the (n+1)th new Terminal I/O library or cloning SMG
I suggest to use the (thin) (n)curses binding and produce a thick OO-style
binding for Terminal I/O on top of it. (n)curses has the advantage of being
very portable and efficient.

Cheers
J�rgen