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Waxhead
Waxhead

Reputation: 510

Interchangeable GUI toolkit for textmode and graphical mode

I am looking for a cross platform GUI toolkit (for C) that works equally well in the terminal as it does in the "graphical world".

What (I think) I want is something like ncurses but with the option to set the guimode before starting. So for example if my program is started from the commandline I can go textmode and if it is started from X or Windows or whatever I can instead start a graphical GUI using the same API. Something like this...

guimode=TEXTMODEGUI; or guimode=GRAPHICALGUI; before doing something like this...

drawwindow("title","text");

I have not found any ncurses to gtk+/wx/qt/whatever wrappers so far. Does something like this exits?!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 244

Answers (2)

duncan
duncan

Reputation: 6283

If you are willing to accept C++ for the GUI part, use libyui from the YaST project. It supports Qt, Gtk and ncurses. I answered a similar question to yours here.

Upvotes: 2

Craig
Craig

Reputation: 4840

The only project I've run into like this is Charva for Java. I have not used it and there appears to be no development since 2006.

Upvotes: 1

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