Ruby TUI

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I'm creating a program with a TUI to then later implement a GUI using TK
but for now I'm having trouble coming up with a menu system that works
without a whole lot of loops and calls, which is what I have now but its
starting to get really messy and confusing, any suggestions. Somthing
along the lines of this:

Root Menu
  >-Option1
  > >-subOption1
  > >-subOption2
  >
  >-Option2
  >-Exit

main_menu.call #gets and returns menu_option
  case menu_option
    when '1'
    list_pos.call
    main_menu.call
    when '2'
      lookup_menu.call
      case menu_option
        when '1' then list_pos.call
        when 'B' then main_menu.call
        else $aMenu.error
      end
...
end

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Check out the 'highline' gem - its designed to help build "high level
line-oriented" interfaces - and has direct support for menus.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/highline/

Justin

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On 7/26/06, Ryan Edwards-crewe <ryan.edwardscrewe@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm creating a program with a TUI to then later implement a GUI using TK
but for now I'm having trouble coming up with a menu system that works
without a whole lot of loops and calls, which is what I have now but its
starting to get really messy and confusing, any suggestions. Somthing
along the lines of this:

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Justin

Thanks,

Crewe

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