Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site harvard.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!harvard!elvy From: elvy@harvard.UUCP (Marc Elvy) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Unix Display Manager Message-ID: <262@harvard.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 04:27:15 EDT Article-I.D.: harvard.262 Posted: Wed Jun 6 04:27:15 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jun-84 00:45:02 EDT Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard Lines: 26 () I am wondering if anyone has put together a package of screen management facilities which run under UNIX. After sitting up night after night hard-coding coordinates into "curses" programs, I find myself wishing that there were something under UNIX which functions like the CMS "Display Management System" (DMS). This program allows one to interactively define a window (by putting text into a screen) consisting of prompts (text strings) and variables (which can be restricted by type and by range). The defined "window" is then called by a PL/I program, and the package takes care of all the dirty work. While something this sophisticated is not necessary, it would certainly be nice if there were a package which enabled one to define windows by typing a picture onto a screen and specifying what kinds of variables should be read where. This would eliminate the hours of BORING programming which must be done to provide a nice, terminal- independent, full-screen interface to a program. I welcome any hints, rumors, or suggestions. Marc Marc A. Elvy ( elvy@harvard ) ({genrad,allegra,ihnp4,ima}!wjh12!harvard!elvy) Aiken Computation Laboratory Harvard University