After few months of delay, Curses::Toolkit is now available on CPAN.
Curses::Toolkit tries to be a modern toolkit to implement semi-graphical interfaces using Curses. It's inspired by Gtk.
I gave a presentation of Curses::Toolkit at the French Perl Workshop 2009, and at the Open Source Developers conference France 2009. BooK presented it as part of a Lightning Talk at YAPC EU 2009 where I couldn't participate. Thanks to him for that. I will try to participate to London Perl Workshop this year and give a talk about it as well. I have received quite good feedback from people and users about it.
I'd like to mention that Jerome Quelin helped me with the initial release, injecting some Dist::Zilla magic into Curses::Toolkit. Thanks, Jerome.
What next ? I'll try to post a video of what is currently possible with Curses::Toolkit. I need to add more widgets and signals, and fix some bugs. Also, migrating to Moose is on the todo list. The module is usable now, but you can't really build a very nice big application with it.
Want to help ? If you have some free time, please consider helping me on next development of the module. You don't need to be a coder, here are some of the things you could help with :
- Improve documentation : current documentation has some errors, and a better front page for the module would be good.
- Create a Tutorial : preferably in POD, but not tied to follow sub-modules' names
- Help implementing additional widgets
- Create new themes : it's all about colors
- Help the migration to Moose
Look forward to seeing you on the #moose perl moose irc :)
Posted by: John Napiorkowski | November 01, 2009 at 04:01 PM