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Article #7541Re: Seeking Text User Interface Library
From: BOGGS RICHARD GRAN
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 18:17
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 18:17
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In article <duong-070193150757@146.154.25.54> duong@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov (Phong Duong) writes: >Please no yelling if I've posted to the wrong group. I am looking for some >good shareware C libraries: > > * a library to help me do data entry, pop-up and pull-down windows, > (mostly user interface stuffs) in VGA text mode. I have been using VLIB 4.x for sometime now. It's from Pathfinder Associates and runs around $150 with source code, tech support, and free updates. It does all kinds of windowing, popups, dropdowns, form entries, lists, popsideways. Basically anything (and more) you'd need for a good text GUI. I highly recom- mend it. "VLIB 4.x the user interface library for C". > * a library for B-tree data manipulation, and I have recently purchased MIX Software's C/Database Toolchest Library. It included comprehensive B-Tree and ISAM implementations all for $29.95 (I think). They boast a manual of 350+ pages. True, it has that many, but the manual is really oriented towards beginning level programmers. But you can cut through to the chase and just flip through the reference sections (which are great) to get to the meat of the thing. Source code is available for $10 more. One gripe I had about MIX's product was that they only supply the medium library model (whereas VLIB supplies all library models)! I suppose that is to encour- age you to purchase their source code... I also understand that there is a shareware package on wuarchive.wustl.edu in the database area (I think) called BTREE11. Don't quote me on the name, but it is on the site. It's a B+ Tree implementation that I have used in the past for a project. I tried contacting it's authors, but the number is out of existance and the package is several years old. But it works just fine! Source code is included. > * a linked-list library Write you own or use Borlands... -- Grant Boggs boggs@a.cs.okstate.edu Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!gatech!destroyer!ncar!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!constellation!a.cs.okstate.edu!boggs From: boggs@a.cs.okstate.edu (BOGGS RICHARD GRAN) Subject: Re: Seeking Text User Interface Library References: <duong-070193150757@146.154.25.54> Message-ID: <1993Jan8.181744.21330@a.cs.okstate.edu> Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 18:17:44 GMT Lines: 42