From: John Morrice <spoon@...>
Date: 2010-11-19T02:35:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple, Two-Frame Terminal Application

> I am in need of a way to develop a simple, two-frame terminal
> application that can display event-driven data in one frame and allow
> for the input of commands in a different frame. Without having to go
> to the extremes of something like ncurses, does anyone know of a way
> to do this? Nothing fancy is needed like CTRL key bindings and such,
> just two simple frames.
> 

What about having two processes that communicate over DRb, and use
screen to put them in different frames?

screen has an -X switch which you can use to send commands to the
currently running screen (like split, focus etc)

My project, CARPS, needs to do this because it currently has no GUI, but
to be cross platform, it allows the user to specify a command which
wraps the subprocess (ie, start /wait %cmd, if you are on windows)

John