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Bulvine

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Registered: 2010-10-19

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Remake of installation screen.

I'm searching for a package/method to make my own terminal screen.

If you all remember the installation of Arch Linux? The blue menu where you use the arrows and the spacebar to control the menu?
If you install MySQL you have the same menu for setting your root password too.

I was wondering how you can make your own program in C/C++ or Python with that kind of menu.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Remake of installation screen.

You're looking for ncurses. It's probably already installed on your system, but if not you'll find it in the core repo.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Remake of installation screen.

There are some toolkits to build similar menus, like http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/stfl/

Dieter@be

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-11-05

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Re: Remake of installation screen.

stfl looks cool, although a bit complicated
the arch installer uses dialog (well, actually it uses libui-sh, which in turn uses dialog)

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bunburya

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From: Dublin, Ireland

Registered: 2010-09-06

Posts: 64

Re: Remake of installation screen.

Python has a curses module that you can use.

bunburya

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From: Dublin, Ireland

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Re: Remake of installation screen.

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Last edited by bunburya (2010-10-23 03:45:18)