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- Subject: Re: Create a menu on console output
- From: Sean Conner <sean@...>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:51:57 -0400
It was thus said that the Great ALBERT Aurélien once stated:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to lua and I'm looking for a way to create a "console gui".
>
> Not a like in a game, but on a system console, as the linux command "dialog" does. (all is done in text mode on console output)
>
> Here is a link about linux "dialog" command : http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_adv_dialog.php
> And here is a screenshot : http://linuxcommand.org/images/adventure_dialog-while-menu-dialog1.png
>
> So, is there any lua library to do that kind of stuff ?
> Or is it hard to make from scratch ? (I only need to support a menu, not all features of linux "dialog" command)
I don't know of any, but there is a C library for dialog [1] so I don't
see why it would be that difficult to generate Lua bindings for it (at least
for the higher level dialog_*() functions).
-spc
[1] http://invisible-island.net/dialog/manpage/dialog_lib.html