$Id: README,v 1.1 2008/03/07 15:19:45 rjones Exp $ These are OCaml bindings for the newt text window system. The newt tutorial describes newt as follows: The newt windowing system is a terminal-based window and widget library designed for writing applications with a simple, but user-friendly, interface. While newt is not intended to provide the rich feature set advanced applications may require, it has proven to be flexible enough for a wide range of applications (most notably, Red Hat's installation process). These bindings are copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat Inc. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Development ----------- Use functions from the 'Newt' module. There are plenty of examples in the examples/ subdirectory and if you built documentation then it will be in the html/ subdirectory. Don't use functions from the 'Newt_int' module - that is for internal use only. Implementation -------------- Camlidl is used to build a basic, unsafe binding for most of the functions, in module 'Newt_int'. See 'newt_int.idl'. A few bindings are built by hand, in 'newt_int_stubs_by_hand.c'. 'Newt' module is a safe wrapper written in OCaml which provides correct type, finalization and a few other things. See 'newt.ml'.
