Package for simple form

Package for simple form

[Matthias Teege]

Moin,

for an simple database application I need an tty based
'GUI' package where I can easely build input and ouput
forms, menus etc. I've found texttools but it didn't
compile under FreeBSD at the moment.

Is there any other package out there that I can use?

Bis dann
Matthias

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Re: Package for simple form

[Preben Randhol]

On 18 Aug 2000 09:06:28 +0200, Matthias Teege wrote:
>
>Moin,
>
>for an simple database application I need an tty based
>'GUI' package where I can easely build input and ouput
>forms, menus etc. I've found texttools but it didn't
>compile under FreeBSD at the moment.
>
>Is there any other package out there that I can use?

Try AdaCurses which is bindings for ncurses.

Unfortunately I don't know where you can find the homepage of AdaCurses,
but there are RPMs at http://www.gnuada.org/rpms312p.html.

If you need a tar-ball of the source code, I can send you a copy.

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Re: Package for simple form

[Thomas Dickey]

dvdeug@hushmail.com wrote:
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> At 18 Aug 2000 08:11:20 GMT, randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) wrote:
>>Try AdaCurses which is bindings for ncurses.
>>
>>Unfortunately I don't know where you can find the homepage of AdaCurses,
>>but there are RPMs at http://www.gnuada.org/rpms312p.html.

> There is a set of Ada bindings for ncurses in the ncurses package itslef. 
> Unfortunetly, last time I checked, there was some pretty serious breakage,
>  which I was unable to fix at the time.

I don't recall your bug report (was there one?).

The current version of ncurses is 5.1 (20000708)
There's an faq at
	http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html

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Re: Package for simple form

[dvdeug]

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At 18 Aug 2000 08:11:20 GMT, randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) wrote:
>Try AdaCurses which is bindings for ncurses.
>
>Unfortunately I don't know where you can find the homepage of AdaCurses,
>but there are RPMs at http://www.gnuada.org/rpms312p.html.

There is a set of Ada bindings for ncurses in the ncurses package itslef. 
Unfortunetly, last time I checked, there was some pretty serious breakage,
 which I was unable to fix at the time.

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Re: Package for simple form

[Preben Randhol]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 01:22:28 -0600 (PDT), dvdeug@hushmail.com wrote:
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>At 18 Aug 2000 08:11:20 GMT, randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) wrote:
>>Try AdaCurses which is bindings for ncurses.
>>
>>Unfortunately I don't know where you can find the homepage of AdaCurses,
>>but there are RPMs at http://www.gnuada.org/rpms312p.html.
>
>There is a set of Ada bindings for ncurses in the ncurses package itslef. 
>Unfortunetly, last time I checked, there was some pretty serious breakage,
> which I was unable to fix at the time.

Which version 5.x or 4.2 ?

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Re: Package for simple form

[David Starner]

On 18 Aug 2000 15:34:20 GMT, Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
>> There is a set of Ada bindings for ncurses in the ncurses package itslef. 
>> Unfortunetly, last time I checked, there was some pretty serious breakage,
>>  which I was unable to fix at the time.
>
>I don't recall your bug report (was there one?).

Sorry, there wasn't one. I got the (apparently mistaken) impression that
the Ada code wasn't maintained, so I decided not to send a bug report unless
I could send a patch with it. Since this was ncurses 4.2, it's probably
been fixed.

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Re: Package for simple form

[Thomas Dickey]

David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> wrote:
> On 18 Aug 2000 15:34:20 GMT, Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
>>> There is a set of Ada bindings for ncurses in the ncurses package itslef. 
>>> Unfortunetly, last time I checked, there was some pretty serious breakage,
>>>  which I was unable to fix at the time.
>>
>>I don't recall your bug report (was there one?).

> Sorry, there wasn't one. I got the (apparently mistaken) impression that
> the Ada code wasn't maintained, so I decided not to send a bug report unless
> I could send a patch with it. Since this was ncurses 4.2, it's probably
> been fixed.

I don't recall the details, but both the c++ and Ada95 bindings ran into
compiler-dependent things that had to be fixed between 4.2/5.0 (and with
the Ada95, I do recall that some of the fixes weren't backward-compatible,
so 5.1 doesn't for instance support gnat 3.10).

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