Purpose: detail some of the packages intended to provide a Tcl
interface to curses.

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curses in this case is '''NOT''' the things that you say when you
cannot get [Tk] interfaces working...

Instead, it is a C library designed to provide the C developer a
level of abstraction for writing software to drive character
based displays.


There are various attempts to define a Tk interface based on curses. Related software:

   * [Miscellaneous Tcl procs (Dillinger)]
   * [ck]
   * [CTk]
   * [tcl_curses]
   * [Minimalist Curses]

 What: Tcl Extensions by Michael Schwart
 Where: http://www.du.edu/%7Emschwart/tcl-tk.htm
 Description: This page contains pointers to a number of Tcl extensions,
        including a Tk that uses Curses,
        GD (Image file rendering based on the Tom Boutell's gd library
        - supports PNG and GIF) - version 0.1.0.4,
        GDI (Graphics device drawing similar to Tk canvas, but for Windows)
        - version 0.9.8.3,
        HDC (Name/address manipulations) - version 0.2.0.1,
        WMF (Windows metafile context for copying to clipboard)
        - version 0.1.0.2,
        Tkmsmail (MAPI and CMD mail interfaces, allowing Windows programs to
        send mail) - version 1.0.1.1 (now available from the tcl core's
        CVS repository and is TEA compliant) ,
        Print (printer contexts, providing invocation of common printer
        dialogs and exposes the device context for supporting interaction
        with other platform specific drawing primitives - Windows and Unix) -
        version 0.9.5.2,
        Profile (.INI file manipulations - Windows and Unix) - version 0.6.0.2,
        Signal (simple signal processing - Unix) - version 1.4,
        Winexec (Windows exec command which can properly launch detached
        16 bit and DOS apps as well as Win32 apps) - version 0.6.0.1,
        a .zip bundle of Tcl 8.2 DLLs with NT stubs.
 Updated: 06/1999
 Contact: mailto:mschwart@nyx.net
 
 What: TUI for Windows NT
 Where: From the contact
 Description: Contact indicates that he is working on a port of Ncurses and
        the XTerminal 0.6.9 interface) to Windows NT for use by Tcl.
 Updated: 08/1999
 Contact: mailto:davygrvy@bigfoot.com (David Gravereaux)
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There are several choices for the "service library", including
ncurses and pdcurses.
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''[escargo] 6 Sep 2005'' - Notes that on slashdot that a package of C-coded widgets for ncurses
has been announced: "GANDI (Gathering of Additional Ncurses Development Implements) is a collection
of widgets written in C for ncurses. It's designed to ease writing new ncurses software with a
user-friendly interface. GANDI is a library for developers and not an application for end-users."
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/gandi/?branch_id=58911&release_id=206091]

There's no home page for it, but maybe with [SWIG] or other mechanisms there might be a way for
people who need to use a text interface to piggyback on this package.
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2004-02-10 [VI] A [Minimalist Curses] package.
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