#7 Port of TV to GTK+

[h15n]

I think it is not a fantasy that it is possible to port TVision
to GTK+. I think in this way, TV will have a new life...
Think of a class library that can provide both the console
and X-based GUI. That will be great!

[Salvador Eduardo Tropea]

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No doubt, but ... who will donate the hundreads of "man
hours" necesary to do it?
I don't know much about GTK and just learning GTK is too
much effort for me. May be GTK+ is easier but I'm not sure
that's a good idea (one extra abstraction layer).
Some years ago I managed to write a TV class that was
defined just like TV's TMenu that created a GTK menu. It
worked but it needed too much work for just one class.

[dugz]

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I disagree. Keep tvision lean and mean. Console mode is what its designed for and thats what it should do best. Make it the best text UI around, then if you want your app to have either graphical or tvision clients just add support for both libs in your source code. Really, even running tvision inside an xterm is somewhat of an oxymoron, but there is no denying that it is pretty slick for console apps.