[Info-vax] Screen management in C

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/27/2024 8:10 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 28/12/2024 00:32, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/27/2024 3:54 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2024-12-27 at 14:34 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> But then a full screen VT UI is a concept that has been obsolete
>>>> for 30 years, so maybe there is little point.
>>>
>>> People are still writing apps using the console.
>>
>> There is still a need to write command line tools. Mostly
>> for system administrators and developers, but still there.
>>
>> But full screen VT UI applications? I doubt many of those
>> get written today. Whether custom code using SMG$ or one
>> of TDMS/FMS/DECForms. The end users expectations for UI
>> has changed. GUI or Web.
>>
> In the mid naughties I used SMG to provide a better UI for HHTs on the 
> shop floor - using a terminal emulator on the HHTs
> 
> Far better than the earlier implementation.
> 
> This was in Basic, where I wrote a couple of functions to front end it, 
> then called the SMG routines.
> 
> Went down well on the shop floor

Before VB6/Delphi, Web and smartphones/tablets, then full screen VT UI
was what most people were using - X GUI was rare. But that was then.

Arne