Re: NCurses - GUI or TUI?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, G Hasse wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:52:15PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 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.
>
> A funny thing is that I (a long time ago) had a library that
> took motif applications and made them textbased. Like curses.

WM_Motif for instance (though I've only read occasional comments about 
that)

> So you could program Motif and end up in a text interface. Scary...

;-)

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