Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!news.cs.indiana.edu!cica!ogre!burleigh From: burleigh@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Text windowing/UI techniques Summary: need technical suggestions for doing windowing Keywords: CUA event-driven user interface window Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 91 00:32:47 GMT Sender: news@cica.indiana.edu (News System) Distribution: na Organization: Indiana University Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: ogre.cica.indiana.edu I've been looking for a more or less advanced text-mode interface library with fast virtual windowing that can support (or that includes) the usual CUA bells and whistles. I'm finding that one really has to satisfice with commercial UI libs. I own TCXL, whose next version will in principle support an event driven, CUA interface. But there is no solid ship date. Vitamin C 4.0 looks nice but is relatively expensive and, more important to me, is big (the buggy demo is 164k) and lacks some standard CUA behaviors. Zinc 2.0 is also big, possibly inflexi- ble, and somewhat incomplete. It might be time for me to do my own UI library--at least the windowing part. I perceive, however, that achieving high perfor- mance writes to (possibly virtual, covered or shadowed) windows may require experience with projects such as this that I lack. I am looking, then, for windowing techniques/algorithms. If anyone is interested in sharing ideas or can recommend any books, texts or articles/papers on the subject, I'd appreciate hearing of them. It could also be that I've overlooked some available lib. I thank any responders in advance. PS: Al Stevens is doing a CUA lib in Dr Dobbs, but, at least right now, it is slow and big. -- Frank Burleigh burleigh@cica.cica.indiana.edu USENET: ...rutgers!iuvax!cica!burleigh BITNET: BURLEIGH@IUBACS.BITNET Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405