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I've been looking for a more or less advanced text-mode interface
library with fast virtual windowing that can support (or that
includes) the usual CUA bells and whistles.

I'm finding that one really has to satisfice with commercial UI
libs.  I own TCXL, whose next version will in principle support
an event driven, CUA interface.  But there is no solid ship date. 
Vitamin C 4.0 looks nice but is relatively expensive and, more
important to me, is big (the buggy demo is 164k) and lacks some
standard CUA behaviors.  Zinc 2.0 is also big, possibly inflexi-
ble, and somewhat incomplete.

It might be time for me to do my own UI library--at least the
windowing part.  I perceive, however, that achieving high perfor-
mance writes to (possibly virtual, covered or shadowed) windows
may require experience with projects such as this that I lack.

I am looking, then, for windowing techniques/algorithms.  If
anyone is interested in sharing ideas or can recommend any books,
texts or articles/papers on the subject, I'd appreciate hearing
of them.

It could also be that I've overlooked some available lib.

I thank any responders in advance.

PS: Al Stevens is doing a CUA lib in Dr Dobbs, but, at least
right now, it is slow and big.


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