ncurses (was: [Seaside] Re: Looking for information about pharo usage)

[Michael J. Forster]

On 2010-01-17, at 9:52, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:58:33PM +0100, Matthias Berth wrote:
>> 2010/1/16 Miguel Enrique Cob? Martinez <miguel.coba at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Know nothing about ncurses in Pharo/Squeak but you can also  
>>> consider the
>>> work in SeasideXUL made by Pavel.
>>
>> Yeah, seaside over lynx, anyone ;-)  ?
>
> Well, why not? If you needed a text mode interface, this would be a
> good way to do it.
>
> Dave

It's the keystroke binding and field input control that we require.  
ncurses allows us to reproduce the vax terminal ui almost completely,  
something we cannot do with javascript.

Thanks,

Mike