On 2008-06-25, Roberto Alsina <ralsina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 25 June 2008 15:20:07 Adrian Likins wrote: > > Michael DeHaan wrote: > > > Greg Swift wrote: > > >> I > > >> decided to take a look at newt because it is used by several pieces of > > >> Fedora/RHEL already (such as system-config-network-tui). After > > >> playing with it though I think the Newt Library needs some work as > > >> well (I could just be to picky, but it looks like trying to use a > > >> Widget with a Grid causes Segmentation Faults across multiple versions > > >> which was the first example in a howto i found). > > > > > > Yikes :) I vote for using the one that doesn't segfault :) > > > > Newt is a pretty thin wrapper around slang/curses, so it tends to > > do things like segfault if you try to add 5 widgets to a container widget > > that can only hold 4. > > > > Makes doing newt apps loads of fun to debug. > > > There are nicer python+curses modules than newt, which actually seem to work > ok. > > I havedone a little work with urwid a while ago: http://excess.org/urwid/ > well, i filed a bug against newt so hopefully future versions will stop segfaulting (they accepted the fix). It was an issue with Widgets being intended to never be directly loaded. anyways, I looked at urwid for a minute but its not packaged for fedora yet. At this point I agree with DeHaan about keeping things included for now. I've gotten a touch further with my experimentation with newt. Hopefully the next day or so will get me where I need to be to begin piecing it together for func. -greg _______________________________________________ Func-list mailing list Func-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/func-list
