gNewt - Gtk+ Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit

gNewt is a Newt compatible gtk+ based library. Newt was originaly written by Erik Troan at Red Hat Software. gNewt was written by O'ksi'D.

gNewt 0.06 is compatible with newt 0.50-13.

gNewt's license is LGPL (see COPYING file for details).

If you want to develop a software which must be compatible with both gNewt and newt, you should use newt as the reference during the development.

HACKING :

There is 7 test programs in the gNewt source code : test : C main test program test_ja : C test progaram for Japanese chars testgrid : C grid layout and dialog windows test testtree : C CheckboxTree widget test peanuts.py : Python gsnack module test testtcl.tcl : TCL whiptcl module test testwhiptail.sh : shell whiptail test script

By simply setting the LD_PRELOAD environmental variable, every C, Python, TCL or whiptail program dynamicaly linked to newt can be dynamicaly linked to gNewt at runtime. No need to recompile anything. export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgnewt.so

But if you don't like this feature, you have another choice :

• To use an existing newt C program with gNewt, you should : Edit the program's Makefile. Remove the "slang" and "newt" library form list of library to be linked. Add the "gnewt", "gtk" and "gdk" library to the list of library to be linked. Recompile the program. That's it.

To override the font size, you can set the GNEWT_FONT_SIZE environmental variable : export GNEWT_FONT_SIZE=20x8 This can be usefull to have a full screen display.

Install procedure :

    tar -xvzf gnewt_0.07-1.tgz
cd gnewt-0.07
automake
./configure
make
make install

TODO :

- Destroy all widgets in newtCls() and re-create them in newtFormRun()
- Write a short gNewt specific tutorial
- Add an extended function to load newt or gNewt after the application
  startup? It will avoid the use of LD_PRELOAD. The feature should be
  optional.