Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)

Re:Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting) by powercf on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:12PM (#14035000)

I have used ncurses to build a simple backend interface, that I use for testing new features etc. The end result looks nice, and is functional, but ncurses the library is a pain. It feels like something that would not be written by a programmer today: C, manual pointer-management, the interface feels too low-level. I ended up writing a C++ wrapper around it, adding thread-safety, better scrolling and some convenience functions (the ncurses form library I believe was a particular pain).

What I would like is a high-quality redesign of ncurses with a modern C++ interface.

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Re:Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting) by marssaxman on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:10PM (#14035619)

A modernized curses library with clean UTF-8 support would be really nice. There's no need to make it a drop-in system library replacement, either, so there's no need to maintain ABI compatibility, as ncurses does.

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Re:Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting) by powercf on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:32PM (#14036376)

re. UTF-8 support: ncurses does include this, in libncursesw. It seems to work, although I haven't tried anything outside of Latin-1.

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Re:Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting) by mingodad on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @06:31PM (#14037861)

Probably someone will remember this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision

Turbo Vision is a DOS-based character-mode text user interface (TUI) framework developed around 1990 by Borland for Pascal, and C++.

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