pedroalvesv/abstk

The Abstract Toolkit – a widget toolkit for GUI and text-mode applications.

abstk's Issues

imgur links in wiki/examples dead

only a white square is displayed for most examples.

Bind ESC to close messageboxes

How to replace the contents of a list?

I think we've discussed this at some point, but we may have ended up missing it.

I need to replace the list of options in a selector from a callback. Here's an example of what I'd like to be able to do:

https://gist.github.com/hishamhm/b948ef9e6e8df30d3e3ab8aacff4a80d

Here, if you have two monitors plugged in, I'd like to change the list of resolutions when the other monitor is plugged.

(To test this with a single monitor, use this fake output file:

https://gist.github.com/hishamhm/7db71de28f24b1cac9d1b8569c74576d

and replace io.popen("xrandr", "r") with io.open("xrandr.fake", "r") in the xrandr.lua script (note popen vs. open!) )

This feature is needed in the GoboLinux installer in the screen where you pick the time zone. You type in a substring with part of the time zone name, and the list above it shrinks to include only the elements that match.

Side note: the documentation of Selector argument for set_value is incorrect. It says it takes a boolean, but it takes a number (as its own example shows)

https://pedroalvesv.github.io/AbsTK/modules/abstk.html#Screen:set_value

Setting different sized Selector lists

It cuts the new list to the size of the old one

MsgBox doesn't close properly

Message boxes aren't closing when buttons (besides X) are pressed.

Selector list length vs Selector widget height

Widget's height seems to be based on its list length, instead of its visible items length

GTK issues on headless server

I have an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS (headless, no GTK libs) on which I try to run a sample app that uses AbsTK. I'm getting this error:

$ lua temp.lua
lua: /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/lgi/namespace.lua:151: Typelib file for namespace 'Gtk' (any version) not found
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'assert'
        /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/lgi/namespace.lua:151: in function 'require'
        /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/abstk/AbsGtk.lua:13: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/abstk.lua:11: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'require'
        temp.lua:1: in main chunk
        [C]: ?

temp.lua is just one of the sample apps:

local abstk = require 'abstk'
-- abstk.set_mode("curses")
local scr = abstk.new_screen("My First AbsTK UI")
scr:add_label('hellow', "Hello, World!")
scr:add_label('msg1', "This is a minimal example to demonstrate AbsTK.")
scr:add_label('msg2', "The Screen is the main object of the toolkit. It can run as standalone or added to a Wizard. Its routine consists in creating it (line 2), populating it (lines 3 to 7) and running it (line 8).")
scr:run()

It doesn't work even if I uncomment the second line, or if I run lua temp.lua curses.

Trying to install the proper .typelib files for Gtk gets me into a whole lot of trouble, and dependencies that I don't really need on the VPS. AbsTK should probably give up on GTK when encountering this kind of error and switch to curses automatically.