Re: [TCLUG:14492] Text-mode GUI-like thinggie?

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>One idea I have now is setting up apache on it and having people use lynx
>on the console. Anyone have any comments on that?
        that's a thought. depends how complicated you want the interface to
be. without CGI stuff; boa or thttpd [just imagine Bill the Cat saying that]
are far smaller and less resource-intensive web servers. 

I'd suggest looking into Dialog. it offers a nice GUI-esque interface (radio
buttons, lists, text boxes, progress counters, etc). it doesn't accept mouse
input, unfortunately (it's on their wish list, but they haven't figured out
a way to get the mouse events from GPM, as I understand it); but it is
pretty simple to use.
        it's what RH uses for their text-mode installer, and Linux uses for
"make menuconfig". 
        seems very simple to program. just look at the man page and examples
(should be installed on many systems already). there's probably a perl
module for it as well. (there's a perl module for everything else under the
sun...).

I once kicked around the idea of building a simple newsreader with dialog
and python. never got much past the idea stage, tho. :)

Carl Soderstrom
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