Re: NCurses - GUI or TUI?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Adrian Hayter wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I just wondered whether ncurses is officially classified as a gui or a tui? I 
> know it can handle graphics but apparently its officially a tui. I just 
> wanted to know the official word on the subject.

It supports tui's, but is not _itself_ a tui (just like the X Toolkit 
supports gui's - both are low-level libraries).  The form/menu/panel 
libraries are somewhat higher-level.

> Cheers,
> Adrian
>
> P.S. Sorry if this isn't the right way of getting the answer to the question, 
> but other forms of research are unverified!

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