<html><head></head><body>I was thinking of urwid, but I don't feel it's the perfect match for this type of application. It would require a good amount of work to use urwid for such a simple client. I am planning on using the rather awesome and lightweight "npyscreen" library. It's seems like a match made in heaven. It supports lists(gopher menus) easily, and can easily display prompts from the user in a dialogue box. It also makes it a snap to create context menus(and popup menus in general). It even supports easy to create and manage forms(great for ASK) and for general preference screens/bookmark management. I've built a documentation viewer in it before, which had a nested menu system and was able to show text documents with ease and minimal code. Overall, I see npyscreen and gopher like a marriage made in heaven.<br>
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<a href="http://npyscreen.readthedocs.org">http://npyscreen.readthedocs.org</a>/<br>
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Check out some of their examples and tell me it won't work. :) That's why I noted I could release an initial client this evening due to how easy and powerful this library is. Urwid is great, I made a few apps in it, but it used complex layouts to display the screen. This made debugging a tad difficult, as it took some time to make an app look and function perfectly. Telnet into my profile server to see that urwid app: telnet://<a href="veroneau.net:5199">veroneau.net:5199</a><br>
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Kevin.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On April 22, 2015 5:01:54 PM MDT, James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Kevin Veroneau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin@veroneau.net" target="_blank">kevin@veroneau.net</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>For a gopher client, I was going to make a console-based one, along with a Qt4 WebKit-based one. Qt4 is nicely cross platform, so nobody will be left out.<br /></div></blockquote></div><br />What are you plans here?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'd be interested in a console client (urwid?)</div><div class="gmail_extra">and QT4 would be nice too :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers</div><div class="gmail_extra">James<br /><br clear="all" /><div><div class="gmail_signature"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px"><br /><f
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