Re: Ncurses to GTK.

[Mark Mielke <mark mark mielke cc>]

Seems sort of like "how do I do my job?" to me.

I recommend you try writing a test GUI application first before
jumping in to migrating a complex text-based UI to a GUI. All of the
routines you need are available, and there are many books available to
allow you to learn.

The code is probably not abstracted finely enough to allow your
library to be replaced and have the app 'work'.

As for generating events... see the event loop, or threads. Probably
it will be quite similar to the way your ncurses-based app works,
only with some different sort of glue.

mark


On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:25:31PM -0400, Rokicki, Andrew wrote:
> > I am in the process of evaluating GTK for out application. 
> > So far this is exactly what we have been looking for.
> > 
> > At present time we are using ncurses for user interface.
> > We wrote wrapper library around ncurses to make it easier to use.
> > My idea is to rewrite this library with GTK so it could be a replacement
> > for our ncurses library.
> > 
> > 1.) One thing I have been looking for is a window widget that would allow
> > you to do something similar to this:
> >   Window.Wprintf(1, 1, "THE NUMBER IS : %3.3d", myNumber);
> > Where:
> > 1,1 is x,y location.
> > Window is the window.
> > Wprintf similar to printf in c.
> > 
> > 2.) Also this is an industrial application where there are bunch of
> > switches, air cylinders etc. wired into the PC.
> > How would I generate an event if a switch is pressed.
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > Andy R.
> > 
> > 
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