"Interactive Terminal"

[Themer]

I don't know, that's what I'll call it

What I am referring to is how some programs present a screen of text but allow the "cursor" (flashing box) to move around the screen with the arrow keys and "click" on things by hitting space, or enter, etc. Some programs go as far as allowing the user to actually click on things with the mouse if it's being run in a graphical session, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

My question is how difficult is this, and if it's not too hard... how?

BTW, a good example for anyone who cannot possibly comprehend what I'm taking about would be the command "aptitude". I am not looking to do the menus and windows and all that, but just the ability to move around and pick some stuff.

[hugortega]

ncurses: Announcing ncurses 5.6 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

Just a bit difficult, if you have some practice on text based applications... Surely, there are some frameworks based on ncurses to build TUIs (i.e. libraries for menues, dialogs, and other components), but I don't know any ... my experience is using ncurses directly...

Hugo

[Themer]

Hmm... I don't know, I have an LCD screen

Looks good, I'll see if this is really what I need or not!