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

Hiya. I'm writing an accounting application in Perl/Mysql and I need (quite badly) some way to create a powerful enough user interface in text mode (something comparable to what Perl/Tk offers in the GUI realm). The best thing I've seen so far is the Curses Development Kit Extension by Mike Glover. But it has some serious limitations regarding the maximum number of items in widgets and does not offer complete control over the widgets' behaviour. Does anyone know of something better suited to the stated purpose? Thanks, Sandman.

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Re: Widget library for Ncurses
by infoninja (Friar) on Apr 25, 2000 at 18:33 UTC
    I've had a good bit of luck using Curses::Widgets and Curses::Forms (both available on CPAN), putting together a Perl/Mysql/SQL Server customer management program. You might want to check those modules out for what you're doing.
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RE: Widget library for Ncurses
by Specimen (Acolyte) on Apr 25, 2000 at 18:16 UTC
    I don't suppose this would be much help ?

    CPAN Sorry if you've already checked those.
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