User Interface with menus/fill in the blanks

theatrus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm looking for way to design a text user interface with things such as menus (not nessacrily dropdown), windows, etc. I've attempted to install Curses, but it refuses to compile on my FreeBSD system and seems a little dated.. Any suggestions?

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Re: User Interface with menus/fill in the blanks by antihec (Sexton) on Jun 04, 2000 at 17:36 UTC
Doing a quick search, I found the following: A list of perl-Terminal-UI Modules at CPAN You might want to look at slang and Term-Slang HTH	[reply]
Re: User Interface with menus/fill in the blanks by c0d34w4y (Acolyte) on Dec 13, 2001 at 06:43 UTC
I wrote up a bunch of code that implements drop down menus with shadows + dialog windows and other GUI stuff for PASCAL (DOS mode) using a bit of Assembly code for core display functionality. The GUI may also be initialized from special configuration files (say, something similar to Visual C++ Project resource files) describing various menu features/layout/content. All this is OOP so implementing in one's code should be a rather trivial task. I'm not sure how that could be ported to anything actually... except if I modified (slightly) those Pascal libraries so that they could be used from within a C/C++ code. This, than, could be somehow incorporated with Perl to get the desired result. catch me in the monastery if you wish to talk more about this. My monk id is c0d34w4y.	[reply]