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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.rediris.es!news.upm.es!pjlobo From: pjlobo@euitt.upm.es (Pedro J. Lobo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Curses-based menus: popup, pull-down, etc, is there any available? Date: 14 Mar 1997 10:26:54 GMT Organization: Dpt. Ing. Telematica Lines: 79 Message-ID: <5gb95e$al3@sanson.dit.upm.es> References: <5g6ukq$jro@chenab.lums.edu.pk> NNTP-Posting-Host: haddock.euitt.upm.es Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37097 Sohail Aslam (aslam@lums.edu.pk) wrote: : I need to develop a curses-based menu interface to postgres (running on : a pentium with FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA). I already have the web based interface : to postgres via PHP/FI and JAVA. What I need is an interface to run on : ordinary dumb terminals and telnet sessions. The interface will use : curses routines; my hope is that I don't have to develop curses-based : routine to do pull-down, pop-up menus, cascade menus, text fields for : input etc. Someone must have written such a package. I saw this on comp.os.linux.announce: From: Sandro Sigala <ssigala@globalnet.it> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: TurboVision 0.3 - C++ application framework library Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Date: 4 Mar 1997 22:23:22 GMT Organization: none Lines: 90 Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius) [some stuff deleted] TV is available in C++ and Pascal and is a product of Borland International. It was developed to run on MS-DOS systems, but today it is available for many other platforms (ported by independent programmers). This port is based on the Borland 2.0 version with fixes. Main changes from version 0.2 to 0.3 - ------------------------------------ - - Added support for the FreeBSD operating system. - - Added support for colored output. - - evMouseAuto event fixed. - - Some bugs fixed. Where to download the library - ----------------------------- The library is temporarily in: sunsite.unc.edu:/incoming/Linux ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD/incoming If you don't want to wait the file to be moved to the destination directories, you can download a copy of it from: ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/tvision-0.3.tar.gz The destination directories are listed in the lsm entry: Begin3 Title: TurboVision for UNIX Version: 0.3 Entered-date: 14FEB97 Description: TurboVision for UNIX Keywords: c++ cui gui framework interface Author: ssigala@globalnet.it (Sergio Sigala) Maintained-by: ssigala@globalnet.it (Sergio Sigala) Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/devel/lang/c++ 177k tvision-0.3.tar.gz Alternate-site: freefall.freebsd.org /pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS 177k tvision-0.3.tar.gz Original-site: Platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, GNU g++, gpm, ncurses Copying-policy: Borland copyright and GPL End [more stuff deleted] I think it is exactly what you are looking for. : Thanks You're welcome :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedro José Lobo Perea Tel: +34 1 336 78 19 Centro de Cálculo Fax: +34 1 331 92 29 EUIT Telecomunicación - UPM e-mail: pjlobo@euitt.upm.es