Re: Porting terminal applications to GTK

[alex <legars2101 gmail com>]

Hello,

In my opinion, diffciculty will depends on how the original code is
written.
If you have a good separation between the text editor's function and and
the console interface (wich can be seen as a kind ok GUI), you should
only have to port the interface between function and UI. If not, a code
reading will be the longest work...
(Hope I'm understable...)


Le vendredi 28 septembre 2007 à 10:32 -0400, Unix OS a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I'm an undergraduate student at James Madison University.  I've
> decided to convert one of my CS classes to an Honors class, which
> involves doing some sort of extra project typically.  Anyway, I've
> been working with my professor, and he wants to try porting his text
> editor to a windowed application that can run on Windows.  I figured
> GTK would be a great place to start.
> 
> Enough back story.
> 
> What's involved in converting  a terminal application like a text
> editor into a windowed application?  Will I need to simply need to
> write a custom widget to wrap the terminal application's output? Then
> redirect keyboard and mouse events to the original code?  Or is it
> more involved than that?
> 
> I know Vim can be compiled to run as a GTK app.  I figure the original
> terminal-only code must have been reused.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Kris Kalish
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