Snack UI examples/docs

[Doug Farrell]

Hi all,

Does anyone know where I could find code examples, or documentation,
for the snack toolkit? And in this case I mean the text UI snack
module, not the sound toolkit which seems to show up in every google
search for 'python snack'.

Thanks in advance,
Doug

 

[Grant Edwards]

Does anyone know where I could find code examples, or
documentation, for the snack toolkit? And in this case I mean
the text UI snack module, not the sound toolkit which seems to
show up in every google search for 'python snack'.

The only ones I know about are the examples that come with the
library source distro. I wrote a couple small apps using snack
(in both Python and C). Though I only used a small set of the
available features, I thought it was very handy.

 

[Jarek Zgoda]

Does anyone know where I could find code examples, or documentation,
for the snack toolkit? And in this case I mean the text UI snack
module, not the sound toolkit which seems to show up in every google
search for 'python snack'.

There's no such thing. You can only look at 2 scripts in source package,
plus sources of old Anaconda installer and maybe 1 or 2 other programs.

 

[Doug Farrell]

Thanks for the replies,

There's no such thing. You can only look at 2 scripts in source package,
plus sources of old Anaconda installer and maybe 1 or 2 other programs.

I'm assuming the source package you are referring to is the source for
snack.py itself?

Thanks again,
Doug

 

[Jarek Zgoda]

I'm assuming the source package you are referring to is the source for
snack.py itself?

NEWT/Snack (aka python-newt in Debian) is a C extension interfacing with
libnewt.so. In source package (e.g. from Debian or better src.rpm for
newt from PLD) you will find only these 2 short "demos". To see
python-newt in something bigger, look for src.rpm for RedHat's Anaconda
installer (I am sure RH 7.3 has it, don't know if newer versions of RH
also use text-mode installation routine).

And that's all I know of python-newt examples.