Interchangeable GUI toolkit for textmode and graphical mode

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I am looking for a cross platform GUI toolkit (for C) that works equally well in the terminal as it does in the "graphical world".

What (I think) I want is something like ncurses but with the option to set the guimode before starting. So for example if my program is started from the commandline I can go textmode and if it is started from X or Windows or whatever I can instead start a graphical GUI using the same API. Something like this...

guimode=TEXTMODEGUI; or guimode=GRAPHICALGUI; before doing something like this...

drawwindow("title","text");

I have not found any ncurses to gtk+/wx/qt/whatever wrappers so far. Does something like this exits?!

This could be quite a challenge, given that the semantics of ncurses are not easily mappable to those of GTK+ and friends. — Eugen Rieck, Feb 04 '12 at 15:38

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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If you are willing to accept C++ for the GUI part, use libyui from the YaST project. It supports Qt, Gtk and ncurses. I answered a similar question to yours here.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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answered May 16 '12 at 23:07

duncan

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Thanks Duncan, Sadly I am not willing to go C++ ;) but I'll check it out anyways! – Waxhead Jun 04 '12 at 19:55

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '12 at 16:43

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The only project I've run into like this is Charva for Java. I have not used it and there appears to be no development since 2006.

answered Feb 07 '12 at 16:43

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Interchangeable GUI toolkit for textmode and graphical mode

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