Re: [Gm2] ncurses (also: what about swig)

[Dragiša Durić]

If you're clean slated there, it's best not to involve yourself with ncurses :).

My recommendation would be Gtk+. Writing  definition modules for Gtk+ is easier 
route than implementing/using ncurses support.

Qt is another option, but being C++ it is probably harder to bind to Modula-2. 
SWiG, though, is one possibly interesting route. gm2 is able to generate SWIG 
interface definitions, and I am curious about other way - can we (SWIG being 
very formal and all) generate Modula-2 definitions from SWIG? SWIG site does 
not mention gm2 yet.

Gtk+ is event driven but nothing like Windows event "driveness". You start main 
loop, but not to get events from it and put them through giant case statements. 
Both Gtk+ and Qt are callback based - you create your event handling procedures 
and decorate widget tree with them. From there on, as long as you follow 
moderately simple guidelines, it is all automagic. And it's multiplatform, it 
even works on OSX.

On Dec 17, 2010, at 1:45 AM, rob solomon wrote:

> Has anyone developed modules to use ncurses for output, sort of like 
> TextTools has for Ada?
> 
> I am interested in playing w/ gm2 on ubuntu but I want more than a console 
> interface.
> 
> I have no experience w/ linux programming but have used Stony Brook modula-2 
> for Windows to write my own code.
> 
> Do I have to structure the code as in Windows by using a windows procedure 
> and a message reading loop?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
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