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The UIs are text only, so they are textual. Modern TUIs may support mouse events. That this tool can export to several TUI frameworks is evidence that these UIs

by sumnole 7mo ago

The UIs are text only, so they are textual. Modern TUIs may support mouse events. That this tool can export to several TUI frameworks is evidence that these UIs are indeed TUIs, even if not the most traditional.

jmmv 7mo ago
“Modern TUIs may support mouse events” hah! They already did in the 80s…
- rob74 7mo ago
  Yeah, remember good old Norton Commander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander) - not that newfangled clone Midnight Commander, the original? Or the Borland text mode IDEs (https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/ui-museum-turbo-pascal-7-1/ https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/ui-museum-turbo-pascal-...), complete with windows, menus, buttons, scroll bars, file dialogs etc. etc.?
  - jgilias 7mo ago
    Oh boy, that sent me down the memory lane hard. I also had to Google “Volkov Commander”, as that name sprung to mind immediately too.
jvanderbot 7mo ago
No, a text-based UI is not sufficient. It must also work in a text-only session e.g., on the CLI over SSH.
- 627467 7mo ago
  Do UIs exported from this tool not worknon CLI over SSH?
elxr 7mo ago
> That this tool can export to several TUI frameworks It clearly cannot. Have you even tested it?
- papageek 7mo ago
  This? Alpha notice: Code export is not functional yet. We're actively working on it — check back soon.
  - elxr 7mo ago
    Exactly, don't know why people are acting like actually makes TUIs, it's just a rough mockup of a TUI for now, with a convoluted figma-like UI. I guess the headline and website was enough to get all these upvotes. Quite disappointing as someone in the early stages of making a TUI tutorial myself.
    - tracker1 7mo ago
      I've been juggling some BBS related projects myself that involve some TUI work over raw and web sockets that I've been working on... It's definitely a fascinating space and there's been a lot of relatively recent activity in the space.
      - elxr 7mo ago
        > and there's been a lot of relatively recent activity in the space. 100 percent agree. I personally love what the openTUI folks have been up to. As weird as this might be to say, we're still in the early, early stage of TUI adoption.

by sumnole 7mo ago

jmmv 7mo ago

“Modern TUIs may support mouse events” hah! They already did in the 80s…

rob74 7mo ago
Yeah, remember good old Norton Commander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander) - not that newfangled clone Midnight Commander, the original? Or the Borland text mode IDEs (https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/ui-museum-turbo-pascal-7-1/ https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/ui-museum-turbo-pascal-...), complete with windows, menus, buttons, scroll bars, file dialogs etc. etc.?
- jgilias 7mo ago
  Oh boy, that sent me down the memory lane hard. I also had to Google “Volkov Commander”, as that name sprung to mind immediately too.

jvanderbot 7mo ago

No, a text-based UI is not sufficient. It must also work in a text-only session e.g., on the CLI over SSH.

627467 7mo ago
Do UIs exported from this tool not worknon CLI over SSH?

elxr 7mo ago

> That this tool can export to several TUI frameworks It clearly cannot. Have you even tested it?

papageek 7mo ago
This? Alpha notice: Code export is not functional yet. We're actively working on it — check back soon.
- elxr 7mo ago
  Exactly, don't know why people are acting like actually makes TUIs, it's just a rough mockup of a TUI for now, with a convoluted figma-like UI. I guess the headline and website was enough to get all these upvotes. Quite disappointing as someone in the early stages of making a TUI tutorial myself.
  - tracker1 7mo ago
    I've been juggling some BBS related projects myself that involve some TUI work over raw and web sockets that I've been working on... It's definitely a fascinating space and there's been a lot of relatively recent activity in the space.
    - elxr 7mo ago
      > and there's been a lot of relatively recent activity in the space. 100 percent agree. I personally love what the openTUI folks have been up to. As weird as this might be to say, we're still in the early, early stage of TUI adoption.