RE: How active is development?

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> Actually, I'm defending my thesis on thursday

Good luck on Thursday Magnus!

Coming back to curses support with anygui; one option would be to use the (new) GTK curses interface. It was on slashdot.org a few months back, someone implemented the GTK api for a curses front-end http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/. You could build that and then either use anygui (with GTK as the front-end) or use PyGTK (built with the curses front end).

I'm a big fan of AnyGUI so please don't take the following as an "anygui flame"! -- My experience with anygui is that if you want/need control over keyboard events (e.g. has the escape key been pressed, widget tab sequence control, etc.) to speed up GUI interaction (or rather, non graphical interaction) then anygui currently doesn't offer much/any control. For my project ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/yacddb/ )I ended up implementing a similar solution to Magnus' idea of supporting multiple back ends, I separated the application logic from the GUI; I wrote an anygui interface initially so that it can run anywhere and then later on implemented a specific GUI to allow finer control (I actually cataloged about 500 CD's using the anygui interface so the lack of finer control wasn't that big a deal for my project). I suspect for an IM client, keyboard short cuts are going to be a big requirement, you mileage may vary though.

Chris


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