Re: Create a menu on console output

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

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