Re: sample terminal programs

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Nov 15, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote:

> I need to write (to start with) a simple terminal program that  
> looks and
> acts rather like a gaim IRC window. Is there a sample GTK perl program
> out there that does that?

Erm, gaim's irc window isn't a traditional terminal, so i'm not sure  
what you're asking for.

There are programs that use the Gtk2::TextView to display chats, e.g.  
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gtkchat/

The basic trick is to use a right-gravity mark at the end of the  
buffer and scroll to that mark on each insert.  (That'll make more  
sense as you poke at the API.)


Raf already pointed out Gnome2::Vte, if you want a real terminal  
emulator for running a child process.



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