[Urwid] Looking for more urwid examples

[Bernardo Torres]

Awesome upgrades those would be. I'd love to use them whenever they're
available. You told you planned it for simpler applications, but I used it
in a little bit larger ui, and it proved as usable as other for the simple
ones.
Bernardo

On 5/10/06, Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:
>
> Rebecca Breu wrote:
> > Zitat von "Farrell, Doug" <DFarrell at ScholasticLibrary.com>:
> >
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I'm looking for more urwid example programs as I'm a little stumped how
> to
> >>proceed to get started using the module. What I'm looking for is an
> >>application that would kind of look and feel like the old Borland
> TurboVision
> >>UI system. Somethign with a menubar, drop down selections and the like.
> I
> >>guess I'm just being really dense as I'm stumped getting over the "take
> the
> >>first step" hurdle with urwid.
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance,
> >>Doug
> >>
> >
> >
> > Hi Doug,
> >
> > I attached a simple example that produces a main view. status bar, menu
> bar,
> > pull down menus and a popup dialog. I wrote it down quickly, but I hope
> it will
> > be helpful anyway.
> >
> > Rebecca
> >
> >
>
> That's a great example Rebecca.  Do you mind if I post it on the website?
>
> I remember the old TurboVision UI well.. I spent hours and hours in
> Borland C++ some years ago.  It had floating windows that you could drag
> around and resize.  The windows had vertical and horizontal scroll bars.
> There was a menu system with a decent file dialog.  Likely other things
> I've forgotten too.
>
> My focus for Urwid has always been on other styles of console
> applications (vim, mutt, w3m, etc..), so things like a menu system,
> scroll bars, draggable windows and a file dialog are missing in Urwid.
> (Though Rebecca's example shows that you can build a menu pretty easily)
>
> Now that there is mouse support in Urwid I am investigating adding a
> pop-up menu widget and scroll bars.  The pop-up menu could be used by a
> menu bar and option or "combo box" widgets.  The scroll bars are going
> to be an interesting challenge, since the ListBox widget doesn't know
> what the total length of all the widgets it contains.
>
> A file dialog is a big and interesting project all by itself.  If anyone
> wants to have a go at it, I'll happily accept patches.  :-)
>
> Ian
>
>
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