Add other programs

[USLTD]

I saw office-like applications in your Twits and YouTube videos. Will you add them too or not? Also if you don't mind can you share their code?

[o-sdn-o]

Yes, these programs are part of vtm. At the moment, these are just drafts for the purpose of demonstrating the capabilities of the Desktopio framework.

These programs are enabled when the DEMO macro is defined in the vtm.cpp file.

They are located at ‘vtm/src/netxs/apps/’ in the source code tree.

[o-sdn-o]

Nearly finished applications:

• tile.hpp - Tiling Window Manager
• term.hpp - Terminal Emulator
• logs.hpp - Logger for debug

[o-sdn-o]

In the future, these apps can be run standalone without vtm, like regular TUI apps. Related to #148.

[USLTD]

Good work with VTM. You are making what would be considered impossible and you should be proud for it. What will you do after VTM? Add ImTUI (ImGUI for Terminal) support? It will greatly help VTM

[USLTD]

• term.hpp - Terminal Emulator

Hmm... Terminal Emulator in Terminal Emulator... 🤔
I should test if it will run VTM again

[USLTD]

I tested it and on Termux it doesn't run. It does some kinda infinitely recursive VTM view. Don't know about other platforms

[USLTD]

Do you use pty (pseudo-terminal) for Term app?

[o-sdn-o]

Do you use pty (pseudo-terminal) for Term app?

Inside Term there is a platform-specific PTY object. For POSIX it's PTY, for Windows it's ConPTY.

[o-sdn-o]

Emulator in Terminal Emulator... 🤔I should test if it will run VTM again

You can try running vtm inside vtm as a different user.

May be something like ‘sudo vtm’. It will probably start a new session for another user and attach it.

[o-sdn-o]

What will you do after VTM?

Creating a vtm is an intermediate step in creating the Desktopio framework. This is something in the spirit of WPF, but for C++ and so far for text modes. When this is tested on text-based applications, it will be possible to use it to create cross-platform GUI applications.

[o-sdn-o]

vtm is a multi-user environment in the sense that it is possible to connect any number of participants at the same time. A session is created for the current user account, allowing any number of clients on behalf of this account. Just run vtm in the second OS window to test it.

[USLTD]

Closing in favor of #183