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Old 08-28-2019, 07:27 AM   #439
rien333
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Thanks for your guidance!

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Originally Posted by baskerville View Post
Well, the Calculator is already a terminal that runs bin/ivy/ivy!
Yeah haha, when I realized that I hoped it would be trivial to make a terminal app, but oh well. Nevertheless, I will see if I can cook up something, possibly using a character based approach.

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Originally Posted by baskerville View Post
If you were to write a general terminal application, it'll have to be character based. And unfortunately, when I tried this approach, I wasn't able to prevent the standard output and error to intertwine, producing an unreadable mess.
In case you haven't seen it: there is already a somewhat decently working (although not yet well coded) terminal emulator based on fbink. I'm currently using it with plato and it works fairly decently. It emulates a framebuffer terminal using the small terminal app fbpad, with ncurses support! I can quickly get it to show up by pressing a key/doing some sort of action, and then I can pause the terminal's render process and refresh plato by long-processing to quickly get back to a document.
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