Re: Porting terminal applications to GTK

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 02:00 +0400, Tirra is a Cat wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:32:47 -0400
> "Unix OS" <kk unix gmail com> wrote:
> 
> 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?

Use a vte widget.  That's the widget used in gnome-terminal.

> 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
> 
> -=
> So, it's depends on your code, but generally you will need to rewrite all the functions that works with CLI (I mean the terminal I/O) to the GUI (event driven) - it's a long process. If your editor logic separated from the term I/O - it will be the good start point for remaking console editor to the GUI.
> 
> Have a nice day.
> 
> 
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