[Urwid] An urwid version of zenity?

[Ian Ward]

Jeff Smith wrote:
> urwid-centric text-GUI. But that's not me. I just want a scrolling
> pager dialog that I can throw up in the rare case where I have
> something long to tell my users, and then have it go away when they're
> done, returning them to my simple command-line interface. And
> similarly, when I need to let them edit multi-line text blocks, again,
> throw up a simple text-editor dialog and then have it vanish when
> they're done and go back to the prompt.

Instead of using the screen object's run_wrapper() function you can call
screen.start() to have urwid take over, and screen.stop() to make it go
away.

Ian