Re: Screen management in C

On 12/27/2024 8:10 PM, Chris Townley wrote:

On 28/12/2024 00:32, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 12/27/2024 3:54 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:

On Fri, 2024-12-27 at 14:34 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

But then a full screen VT UI is a concept that has been obsolete
for 30 years, so maybe there is little point.

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People are still writing apps using the console.

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There is still a need to write command line tools. Mostly
for system administrators and developers, but still there.
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But full screen VT UI applications? I doubt many of those
get written today. Whether custom code using SMG$ or one
of TDMS/FMS/DECForms. The end users expectations for UI
has changed. GUI or Web.
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In the mid naughties I used SMG to provide a better UI for HHTs on the shop floor - using a terminal emulator on the HHTs
 Far better than the earlier implementation.
 This was in Basic, where I wrote a couple of functions to front end it, then called the SMG routines.
 Went down well on the shop floor

Before VB6/Delphi, Web and smartphones/tablets, then full screen VT UI
was what most people were using - X GUI was rare. But that was then.
Arne