Embedding an ncurses window into a QT widget GUI

simozz

Hi,

I would like to develope my own small text editor with ncurses with a QT GUI.
What is the best way to achieve it, and making GUI objects to interact with ncurses ?

Simply said, I would like to achieve the same that gVim does with GTK libs.

Thanks.
s.

jsulm

@simozz Why do you want to mix ncurses with Qt?
gVim integrates an existing text mode application into a GUI one.
If you're starting to implement your own app I don't see the point to mix ncurses with Qt.

simozz

Hello @jsulm,

You are right to say that there is not need to mix QT and ncurses, and I already know it since I have already worked with QT.

However I am also courious how this implementation (QT + ncurses) should be done. Do you know, briefly, how can it be done ?

Regards,
Simon

aha_1980

Hi @simozz,

https://github.com/ohwgiles/quilte is a project that does this more or less - it's a terminal emulator written in Qt. It has dependencies however and will not work on Windows, if I get it right.

But it should show you the principle.

Regards