How can I build an ncurses based menu? Are there any other solutions for building "menus" for use on the console? I just need an "inter-operating system" (all non-windows :P) solution. Are there any good solutions to build/create menus in perl?
asked Jun 28 '11 at 11:11
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search.cpan.org/search?mode=all&query=ncurses+menu – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Jun 28 '11 at 12:45
Would the program dialog be sufficient for your needs? It can do basic dialogs and even more complex stuff. Maybe you should look into it.
See http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2807 for some further information.
Ofcourse, this wouldn't be a 100% perl solution.
The answer is in your subject line already. That's what ncurses is for. I'm sure there are ncurses bindings for perl. For example there is a curses UI library for perl.
The NCURSES Programming HOWTO has perl examples.
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1Ncurses isn't the right level for a menu interface, there's a wheel to reinvent above it. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Jun 28 '11 at 12:44
There is the CDK toolkit and perl bindings for it. there are also Python bindings if you are interested. This library provides some higher level "widgets" on top of ncurses.
Same question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2907321/ncurses-and-perl-any-guides
For a good example of using curses with Perl, you might want to pick up a copy of Steven L Kunz's* perl menus'' package (menu.pl'') via anonymous FTP from ``ftp.iastate.edu''. It's in the directory /pub/perl as: menu.pl.v3.1.tar.Z
