Purpose: detail some of the packages intended to provide a Tcl interface to curses.
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)
What: ck
Where: http://www.ch-werner.de/ck/
Description: Curses Tcl Toolkit . Tk like toolkit but in character mode,
using XPG4 curses.
Runs on Linux, AIX, HP-UX, DEC Unix, SCO OpenServer, FreeBSD, and
Win32.
Currently at version 8.0 .
Updated: 09/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: CTk
Where: ftp://ccfadm.eeg.ccf.org/pub/ctk/
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/ctk4.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/ctk4.0b1.tar.gz
http://www.du.edu/%7Emschwart/ctk8.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc5/
Description: This is a version of Tk which uses curses. Applications with
a modern GUI-ish interface can be created for character terminals.
CTk is a subset of Tk, being unable to do things like scaling
canvases, selection, send, active backgrounds, etc.
A version 4.2 is available at ccfadm.
The version by Mr. Schwartz, at du.edu, has been upgraded to
work with Tcl 8, but does not yet support Tk 8 features.
There are rpms at redhat which have been upgraded with patches
to seem to work with Tk 4.2.p12/Tcl 7.4p3.
Updated: 02/2000
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Martin Andrews)
mailto:[email protected] (Michael Schwartz)
mailto:[email protected] (Karl O. Pinc)
What: Network Management / SNMP
Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/tcl_nm-1.03/tcl-nm-1.03.tar.gz ???
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tcl_curses.shar.gz
Description: An initial implementation of an API for SNMP. This is currently
being reworked in the light of SNMPv2. Please check with the mail-
server for current status. Send a help line to the mailserver
for details of signing up for the SNMP Tcl mailing list.
Also note that packages such as
tcl_curses, tcl_dbm, tcl_mib, tclnm, and tcl_snmp or tk_snmp
are available.
Contact the mailing list to ask for details.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Mailing service daemon)
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:[email protected]
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:[email protected] (David Gravereaux)There are several choices for the "service library", including ncurses and pdcurses.
2004-02-10 VI A Minimalist Curses package.