TW (Text Windowing) Library

Purpose:

A (yet another !) C character-mode windowing library, that handles windows with a highlevel API (contrary to curses :-). Interfacing with SWIG is done: you can use it with Python (included in the archive) or Perl or Tcl (do-it-yourself).

Why:

*curses was too complicated to do multi-window management...

When:

It was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... no I'm kidding :-), it was rather in 92-93, now that it comes to mind. At that time function and arrow keys were not supported. This was added later, between different ports... Well it's an old thing I finally decide to make available.

Requirements:

Intrinsically you need termcap functions. If you have a working termcap library it's ok (Debian Linux' one is not compiled correctly); Under Linux ncurses is adequate.

Where:

C sources are in this tar-gzip archive: tw 2.2.

The future:

In random order (and when I have some time: never^W oops :-)

• color: at present the only supported attributes are underline, reverse video, bold and blinking.
• hierarchical windows: for now all windows are attached to a "root window" called "screen"
• mouse events
• X11 display backend (with same API and principles)

And this is ongoing:

• widget management atop layer: form, entry, label, button, etc...

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