Re: [linux-audio-dev] libcui - design-question

Hi! Yes there is ncurses. But with ncurses as is you can just position characters on the screen, whereever you like and in which color you like. Yet I want to design a library, that is useful for blind and possibly other disabled people. This will incorporate predefined keys for movement, ALWAYS AND ONLY moving the hard cursor, don't use color-attributes. Try to display objects so they are useful on a braille-display. This library should come with a good set of objects and init and fini (start and exit) routines. So programmers have a standard library with objects they know. Yet in contrast to just writing direct ncurses code: they don't have to know what is good for a blind person and what is not. This library is intended to be used for applications, thatdon't already have a textbased interface (synthesizers, sequencers...). Using this library enables the user to get it "a bit more the GUI way". A sequencer (especially a step-sequencer) is very easy to handle from such an interactive UI. This library can't do everything, that the real gui can do, but about most of the main objects I have some definite ideas. That means buttons, sliders, checkboxes, not canvas, window, panel. Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net - the Linux TextBased Studio guide