[Gllug] slang or ncurses? (or other?)

tet at accucard.com tet at accucard.com
Fri Feb 8 10:09:58 UTC 2002


>I'm starting a module on uni where I at some point will need to produce
>a game of some sort containing simple graphics. I will be using C. For
>console, I only know of s-lang and (n)curses. I think I heard somewhere
>that s-lang was easier to use. For X I know there is GTK+, but I really
>don't need anything that fancy. I'm not going to focus on the graphics
>anyway, that is not what interests me. What are your thoughts? 

If your "graphics" really are that simple, then I'd stick with ncurses.
It's simple, easy to understand, and it works well. I once wrote a text
only version of Minesweeper in ncurses.

Tet

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