From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Menubar on text only terminals
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 11:28:32 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17937.37280.901597.817103@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uodm7555j.fsf@gnu.org>
> Indeed. I suggested long ago to retrofit the MSDOS code into a Posix
> text terminal. This should be almost trivial: all we need is to
> replace direct screen writes with terminfo commands and stdio output.
> All the rest can be kept almost verbatim. The relevant functions are
> XMenuCreate, XMenuAddPane, XMenuAddSelection, XMenuLocate,
> XMenuActivate, and XMenuDestroy (and their few subroutines), all found
> on src/msdos.c. Of these, XMenuActivate is the only one that is
> complicated; all the rest are really trivial.
I'm surprised that it is so easy given that tmm.el isn't a simple piece of
code. What happens with toggle and radio buttons? Are they also handled?
If someone writes some code, I'll be happy to test it.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-02 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-31 7:12 Menubar on text only terminals Nick Roberts
2007-03-31 20:42 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-31 21:36 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-02 2:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-04-02 4:56 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-02 6:55 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-04-02 7:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-02 7:37 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-04-02 7:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-02 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-02 23:28 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-04-03 6:50 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-03 8:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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