[RFC] ColorD

[Jens Mueller]

Tobias Pankrath wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 22:47:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> >On 10/22/2012 3:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:> On 10/22/12
> >9:47 AM, Jens Mueller wrote:
> >>> This is probably interesting for Phobos. But I'm not the one
> >to make a
> >>> decision. The core Phobos developers should decide.
> >>> Hopefully somebody is reading this.
> >>
> >> Off the top of my head something that is specific for only
> >certain systems
> >> (Unixen in this case) is decidedly of less Phobos interest.
> >We could,
> >> nevertheless, put such functionality in system-specific
> >modules.
> >
> >A module that only sets the console color is a little too light to
> >be a phobos entry.
> >
> >A more comprehensive module that included:
> >
> >1. getting mouse input
> >2. getting size of the console
> >3. moving the cursor around
> >4. drawing boxes in the console window
> >5. setting the contents of the title bar
> >6. supporting cut/paste
> >7. getting no-echo raw input
> >8. setting the size of the cursor
> >
> >would be a definite candidate. I.e. a module that can support
> >building a text mode screen app (like a text editor).
> 
> This would look like a full blown TUI-Toolkit and we should model
> the API
> after successfull GUI-Frameworks like Qt, i.e. provide a event
> loop, use
> a Signal/Slot mechanism etc.
> 
> That would be a real improvement over nCurses. What do you think?

If you can add an event loop on top that would be great. What do I need
to make sure that you can add the event handling on top?

Jens