Thread: Console wrapped inside a GUI

I need a console-like application wrapped inside your typical GUI window, full with menus, toolbars, etc. My GUI development is based on wxWidgets.

So far I have been emulating a console; Essentially, a text control drawn to look like a console and abusing the wxStreamToTextRedirector class to redirect ostream to the text control. But this is becoming too unwieldy, as I need also to emulate curses functionality and I really don't want to do this.

So, what I really would like was for a curses-ready (or curses-like) console object, and supporting both Linux and Windows. Any suggestions?

Ncurses. I dunno what "your typical GUI window, full with menus, toolbars" etc could mean that I haven't seen done with ncurses, from popups to tabs to auto-intellisense style stuff. I've write basic menu & toolbar apps with it. The current GNU mc prefers the slang library for whatever reason, but it works much the same under ncurses. Console vim is ncurses and eschews menus and toolbars, but still does that intellisensey stuff and other things sort of unique to it's interface unless you remember 80's DOS apps. And still like star trek compared to that.

Which had toolbars and menus. DOS apps I mean.

Looks like there's a wxwidgets terminal - it says it's a fully-functioning VT100 emulator. taTelnet - linux.techass.com

I'll take a look at it. Thanks. Very old but at least it seems it cuts some of the work from me.