From: Nit Khair <sentinel.2001@...>
Date: 2008-10-11T15:38:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing an OO wrapper (UI)

Martin DeMello wrote:
> 
> Another neat but sadly abandoned TUI project is jttuii:
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jttui/
> 
> martin

Am going thru the jttui source. I like the way he has done buttons, 
dialogs etc. For example:

> bq=JTTWButton.new(d1, 'Quit Button', 3, 2, 11, 1, 'Quit') {
>    JTTui.addmessage nil, :close}

However, a little surprisingly he does not use anything from ncurses - 
not even WINDOW, FORM, FIELD etc. So i am a bit lost. He has a C file, 
jtcur.c which has this mysterious line:

>  * curses's Window stuff has been eliminated
>  * (IMHO it exist just because C programers don't have power
>  *  of ruby to make it (or better) on their own :-))

Can't figure out whether be bypasses curses altogether, although he 
includes it in this one c file. Is he totally replacing curses ?

That said, I do not really like the text UI of jttui, or newt (similar 
to the dialog command) - the popup/ dialogs etc. I tried out CDK too, 
and did not like the widgets too.

I find alpine/pine's UI very pleasing and "clean". My app bases itself 
on the pine look and feel - the same menu page, key labels at the bottom 
of each screen, text messages and user input on the 3rd from last line 
(instead of a popup/dialog).

However, i can learn a lot from jttui and other similar projects on how 
i can make fields, labels, windows, panels easier to use, by making a 
proper OO wrapper.
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