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From: kak@stc-auts.UUCP (Kris Kugel)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: want Menu/Popup/Form entry software
Message-ID: <227@stc-auts.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 12:52:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: stc-auts.227
Posted: Thu Oct 15 12:52:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 10:43:22 EDT
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Organization: Storage Technology Corp, Louisville, CO
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Keywords: menu popup forms

I've been trying to create a menu/forms/popup package using curses,
with some lack of success.  The problems I've been having are because
I don't have a good idea what the interface to the package should be.
(I was doing this in liu of making a very specific set of routines
 for a single application)
The kind of questions I had problems answering:
	Should the menu package be passed the curses window, or should
	it create it?
	should a menu have an independent display life?
	what is a adequate set of item addressing commands for menus?
	What is the best way of handling menus too large for a window?
	Where should error messages go?

I didn't even try to attack the entry form software yet.

Anyhow, suddenly it occured to me that OTHER PEOPLE MUST HAVE ALREADY
TRIED THIS!

>SO, Does anybody out there have software available to do this kind of thing?
>If not, does anybody have good ideas on what the interfaces to the routines
>should look like?

	Kris A. Kugel
	Storage Tek:    ...{hao,nbires,ihnp4}!stcvax!stc-auts!kak
	High Country Software: ...{hao,nbires}!hicntry!kak

P.S.	I like the Suntools-type definitions, but don't know how to make
	machine-independent variable-argument subroutines.