[gopher] Gopher+ support in the community

[James Mills]

Sounds interesting I'll take a look :)

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net> wrote:

> I was thinking of urwid, but I don't feel it's the perfect match for this
> type of application. It would require a good amount of work to use urwid
> for such a simple client. I am planning on using the rather awesome and
> lightweight "npyscreen" library. It's seems like a match made in heaven. It
> supports lists(gopher menus) easily, and can easily display prompts from
> the user in a dialogue box. It also makes it a snap to create context
> menus(and popup menus in general). It even supports easy to create and
> manage forms(great for ASK) and for general preference screens/bookmark
> management. I've built a documentation viewer in it before, which had a
> nested menu system and was able to show text documents with ease and
> minimal code. Overall, I see npyscreen and gopher like a marriage made in
> heaven.
>
> http://npyscreen.readthedocs.org/
>
> Check out some of their examples and tell me it won't work. :) That's why
> I noted I could release an initial client this evening due to how easy and
> powerful this library is. Urwid is great, I made a few apps in it, but it
> used complex layouts to display the screen. This made debugging a tad
> difficult, as it took some time to make an app look and function perfectly.
> Telnet into my profile server to see that urwid app: telnet://
> veroneau.net:5199
>
> Kevin.
>
> On April 22, 2015 5:01:54 PM MDT, James Mills <
> prologic at shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> For a gopher client, I was going to make a console-based one, along with
>>> a Qt4 WebKit-based one. Qt4 is nicely cross platform, so nobody will be
>>> left out.
>>>
>>
>> What are you plans here?
>>
>> I'd be interested in a console client (urwid?)
>> and QT4 would be nice too :)
>>
>> cheers
>> James
>>
>>
>> James Mills / prologic
>>
>> E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
>> W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au
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