<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Alan Gauld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.gauld@btinternet.com">alan.gauld@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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"Bill Allen" <<a href="mailto:wallenpb@gmail.com" target="_blank">wallenpb@gmail.com</a>> wrote<br>
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I want to be able to create some user interfaces, similar to what you see<br>
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in console based programs like Midnight Commander or other TUI type programs<br>
that use box drawing characters to create a user interfaces for input and<br>
display of information.<br>
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This is OK and you can use curses on Linux/Unix systems and something<br>
like Conio on Windows, but....<div class="im"><br>
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However, I do want them to be portable to most<br>
platforms that Python will run on.<br>
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This is much more difficult. Terminals are non portable and neither<br>
of the libraries above work on the other system. You would probably<br>
have to build your UI twice. This is one area where real GUIs work<br>
better than a terminal.<br>
<br></blockquote></div>This is good to know. For my purposes either will be an acceptable option <br>for me as I am very much in learning mode. In the endgame, I can always<br>do an OS detection and load whichever code is appropriate as the duplication<br>
does not bother me much.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Bill<br>