New package that uses ncurses

[Rob Pitman]

Hi,

I know that this is not the appropriate address for this message, but I 
thought you might be interested in a software package that I have 
developed, that provides a "graphical user interface" between a Java 
application and an ASCII terminal. I feel that the interface will be 
useful in a wide variety of applications; and to my knowldege, no such 
interface exists yet.  The package uses the standard GNU "ncurses" 
library, so it supports any text terminal that has a "terminfo" 
description.

The package emulates the API of the Java AWT (Abstract Windowing Toolkit) 
and the Swing toolkit, and provides "graphical" widgets such as Frames, 
Dialogs, Labels, TextFields and Buttons. It also supports the 
LayoutManager classes provided by the Java AWT; FlowLayout, BorderLayout, 
BoxLayout and GridBagLayout. One can design the GUI of an application 
using any popular Java IDE and then port it to use a text interface with 
very little work.

I have made the package available under the GNU Lesser General Public 
License (LGPL); in other words, it can be used for commercial and 
noncommercial purposes, and copied and redistributed freely.

You can get more information about the package at:

http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/index.html

I would appreciate any feedback that you may have.

Regards
Rob Pitman

Irene,
Centurion
Gauteng Province
Republic of South Africa