Re: [ECOS] Any suggestion about text-based GUI function?

[Sergei Gavrikov <w3sg at SoftHome dot net>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:34:03AM +0000, wang cui wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As we always provide console for user interaction. It's difficult for use 
> to remember and understand so many commands.
> 
> I'd like to provide a text-based GUI interface, a great example is Turbo C 
> program.
> 
> I did some work on my target, analysis user input(eg. arrow keys) from 
> terminal(HyperTerminal), and keep the terminal screen layout unchanged, but 
> update corresponding fields. Also automaticaly update statistic fields when 
> changed.
> I found it useful for newbie user.
> 
> Is there guide article or open-source library to help accomplish such 
> function?

You would like to read this nice article:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-tams3/ 

Peter Seebach told about using BSD curses under eCos. AFAIK, there are 2
_main_ TUI libraries in open-source world. These are slang and ncurses.

But let think about an Expect (http://www.tcl.tk) too. Using Expect and
any TUI wrapper (I prefer `whiptail' on Linux), it isn't difficult to
write an interactive system is embedding no extra libraries in your eCos
programs. What do we need? That's just any CLI prompt.

regards,

-- Sergei

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