Re: [bug-gtypist] GTypist for Beginners

[Tim Marston]

Hi,

Sorry for the slow response. I was away last weekend and I've been busy 
with work. I'm back again though now.  :o)

On 23/12/11 20:35, Felix Natter wrote:
> > Does ncurses offer anything like a "checkbox" widget? If it does,
> > perhaps you could use one of them to say "don't show me this again".
>
> Plain ncurses does not have any widgets. But there is libform/panel/menu
> [...]
> => so I suggest to write this from scratch.

That sounds good. Personally, I'd be happy with the previous suggestion 
(SPACE/ENTER to continue, ESCAPE to never see again). I just wondered if 
ncurses provided any widgets we could use, that's all.

Just a thought: If you do decide to implement some TAB-navigable 
"widgets", you should try to keep all ncurses-specific code separate 
from the general code. I'm thinking about the time when we add a 
switchable front-end (so you can choose between ncurses and, say, GTK). 
It would be really nice if we could offer options for configure to build 
with/without ncurses or GTK. So at some point we'll probably need to 
pull out all the ncurses-specific code in to its own file.

> > Hmm, I don't know about adding more colours (I'm worried it would start
> > looking garish!),
>
> I think we should do this optionally (turned off by default, if you
> want).

Ok. That sounds fine. When I've got a config file working, we can add 
configuration options to it to control the interface colours.

> I wish you (and all other subscribers) a merry christmas.

And happy new year from me!  :o)

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Tim Marston
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