Re: DOS style menu
From: Anthony Borla (ajborla_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 10/31/03
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 03:51:27 GMT
Yang,
"Yang Li" <yuxinglivze@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>
> Does anybody remember the golden old days of Win95 and
> start-up disks driven by a simple console interface with
> a few choices that can be highlighted and selected ?
>
Great stuff was possible [using x86 assembler, or Turbo Pascal, or ANSI
escape codes sent via the PROMPT command in batch files] even earlier under
DOS 2.x and up :) ! Tools like the Norton Utilities and Commander even
brought such possibilities to the masses !
>
> Anyway I havent figured out how to make that kind of
> console menus, whereby the choices can be highlighted and
> the enter key selects the choice.
>
Nor will you, as the kind of 'tight' keyboard control [e.g. respond to
single key strokes without the need to press ENTER] required for such
[console-based] applications is not possible using native Java. Suitable JNI
routines need to be used.
>
> Anybody know how to do this with Java?
>
The easiest way is probably to do a web search for a Java implemention of
the UNIX Curses package. I remember looking at product [in beta testing at
that time] called JCurses some time ago which may well offer the
functionality you require.
I hope this helps.
Anthony Borla
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