Purely historic question: VT200 text graphic programming

[GrayShark]

Yes, Curses, how could I forget that. Thanks

Steven


On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:34:35 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:38 -0600, GrayShark wrote:
>> Once, many, many, years ago, I programmed some type of 'graphical'
>> interface on a VT200 terminal (only DEC VAX/VMS programmers are going
>> to know what this is). Question. What was the library I linked against?
>> Yes, you remember, painting boxes with ascii and the superset of ascii.
> 
> It was curses [ these days people typically use "ncurses" ].  There
> really isn't anything historic about it, it is used in many current
> projects/products - basically anything that will run in a gnome-terminal
> [such as YaST] uses ncurses.  It works very well from Python.  [for
> example:
> http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2010/01/python-curses-in-action-even-
on-aix.html
> ] There are several higher level 'wrappers' for ncurses these days.
> 
> Docs @ <http://docs.python.org/howto/curses.html>