How to write a nice (complex) console app?

[kazaam]

Hi,
how can I do a nice console interface? I wanna do something like this her:

-----------------------------------------------------
|Entry1 |Subitem1 of Entry1 |
|Entry2 |Subitem2 of Entry1 |
|Entry3 |Subitem3 of Entry1 |
| | |
| |---------------------------------------|
| |Content of Subitem1 of Entry1 |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
|-----------|---------------------------------------|

With the up and down keys I wanna scroll within the three different areas. And with scroll I really mean scroll,e.g. one entry could have 10 subitems which don't fit all at once in this area so with going up & down this area must be redrawn if neccessary. The actually selected entry should also be highlighted...

And with the left and right keys I wanna jump between the three different areas.

But I've no idea how to do this task?

Could someone just point me in the right direction which gem or lib I need? It should be Utf-8 compatible..

The whole thing shall be working under linux.


bye

 

[Jason Roelofs]

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Hi,
how can I do a nice console interface? I wanna do something like this her:

-----------------------------------------------------
|Entry1 |Subitem1 of Entry1 |
|Entry2 |Subitem2 of Entry1 |
|Entry3 |Subitem3 of Entry1 |
| | |
| |---------------------------------------|
| |Content of Subitem1 of Entry1 |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
|-----------|---------------------------------------|

With the up and down keys I wanna scroll within the three different areas.
And with scroll I really mean scroll,e.g. one entry could have 10 subitems
which don't fit all at once in this area so with going up & down this area
must be redrawn if neccessary. The actually selected entry should also be
highlighted...

And with the left and right keys I wanna jump between the three different
areas.

But I've no idea how to do this task?

Could someone just point me in the right direction which gem or lib I
need? It should be Utf-8 compatible..

The whole thing shall be working under linux.


bye

You want ncurses.

Don't know what's available for ncurses in Ruby though.

Jason

 

[kazaam]

You want ncurses.

Don't know what's available for ncurses in Ruby though.

Jason

thx I found a ncurses-binding for ruby and will give it a try