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04-01-2009

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GUI for a Linux router - WWW or ncurses Dialog ?

Hi,

Linux router is my only "full" Linux application.
I native compiled and installed Linux Unix dialog utility.
Dialog comes with a limited set of objects, called widgets.
Some work fine, some need improvements.

But what I really need is graphical interface to shell scripts run on my Linux machine (no monitor).

I can connect to my Linux with putty in telnet session
and can run installed applications.

Some examples from dialog get flicked on data refresh
but I need flick-free graphical interface (full screen)
to let me enter some data , parameters to a modem
and get response, some transfer statistics and the like.

MDMA application is a good example.

I get used to write some basic programs with GUI, using Visual Basic,
and its form + objects I put on a form, set attributes,
wrote some code and got application working.

In my case I am not looking for client side application,
just ncurses based dialog widgets with some more options to let
me design nice graphical interface, full screen.

I can use some dialog widgets, trying to stick them together
but a number of options is not great (about 15 objects)
and each object is pure graphics, as no multithreading, multiprocessing.

So I planned to loop widgets with new parameters entered
to get some data refresh feature, like in VB.

Unfortunately refresh time is 1 s min.
so flickering is seen.

So please tell me about another basic flicker-free GUI solution to work with my Linux over putty.

I will attach some dialog widgets code asking for advice, if it is possible
to build a new widgets in due time, or a task is far too complicated for me.

Another solution is www interface, but I need GUI to refresh data
in flicker-free mode.

Jack

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do_dialog

do_dialog(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual						do_dialog(3alleg4)

NAME

       do_dialog - Basic dialog manager function. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       int do_dialog(DIALOG *dialog, int focus_obj);

DESCRIPTION

       The basic dialog manager function. This displays a dialog (an array of dialog objects, terminated by one with a NULL dialog procedure), and
       sets the input focus to the focus_obj (-1 if you don't want anything to have the focus). It interprets user input and  dispatches  messages
       as  they  are  required, until one of the dialog procedures tells it to close the dialog, at which point it returns the index of the object
       that caused it to exit, or until ESC is pressed, at which point it returns -1.

SEE ALSO

       popup_dialog(3alleg4),  init_dialog(3alleg4),   centre_dialog(3alleg4),	 set_dialog_color(3alleg4),   find_dialog_focus(3alleg4),   excus-
       tom(3alleg4), exgui(3alleg4), exrgbhsv(3alleg4)

Allegro 							   version 4.4.2						do_dialog(3alleg4)