libcontrol

[adriangrigore]

Any reason libcontrol is not ported?

[noelhunt]

Yes, I have wondered that myself. I have actually built libcontrol, but
I would like to see examples of its use. I am certain I read somewhere
that there was only ever one program written using it, but I've never
found such a thing in any of the released Plan9 source.

[adriangrigore]

I compiled it successfully on OpenBSD and actually created a small program with it!

I would like to see examples of its use. I am certain I read somewhere
that there was only ever one program written using it, but I've never
found such a thing in any of the released Plan9 source.

https://9p.io/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/auth/factotum/fgui.c

[noelhunt]

Many thanks, I will try this out. When I was experimenting with libcontrol a couple of years ago, all I could find was a program to display a 'slider'; I found this in the contrib source. There was one other program which drew a large window with a text entry line (rectangle) at the bottom. Very reminiscent of pads(9)/pi(9) and Rob Pike's editor 'jim'. I think commands typed in the text entry rectangle had their output displayed in the large window above. Your code looks a lot more interesting.

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[halfwit]

/sys/src/cmd/bitsy/keyboard.c uses libcontrol. I wrote a bit with it for my personal things, and really enjoyed working in it, but it does feel somewhat unfinished.