Re: [gentoo-user] Embeding a Terminal in a GTK Window

[Frank Steinmetzger]

Am Dienstag 09 März 2010 schrieb dhk:

> I'm not looking to make major changes to the existing terminal run
> program.  You see, I'm dealing with the corporate mentality.  They want
> to add features that are just not that feasible in a procedural
> language.  I also have to deal with their thousands of users that use
> the program around the country and their distribution and install
> procedures.  So changing the terminal the program runs in is not an
> option, that would mean getting security and sysadmins involved etc.  So
> in short a lot will not fly.  Management doesn't understand why a
> procedural application can't have a button or scrolling text, because
> they see those bells and whistles on websites they think they can have
> it everywhere.  I really don't want to go off on a corporate management
> tangent.
>
> I would like to make some hybrid GUI/text application.  The original
> text application runs in a terminal.  I can edit the text program so I
> can change the main().  So far I've added GTK and can compile and link
> with GTK.  When the text program starts I can open a GTK window which
> has a vbox in it.  In one of the sections to the vbox I would like to
> know how I can embed the terminal that runs the text program.  The other
> parts of the vbox will have a scroll window and buttons.

Sounds like a good candidate for ncurses.
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