API status and UI library efforts

[Vosjedev]

Hi!

It's been a while since I was active over here, and a lot has happened since then (I had release notifications on so I did read all the changelogs appearing in my email though :D). I'm planning on reading all the current documentation somewhere soon.

As I said earlier (last year or so), I am still interested in maintaining python bindings for the application API and writing some apps like a filemanager. Hereby the question: what is the current status of the application API (or do we use another term here), is it stable enough to start making bindings for it (I can start somewhere in june or juli) or rather how often are there changes right now, roughly?

I also got the idea of maybe it being possible to port (n?)curses to support drawing via directvt, but I wouldn't be able to do that myself any time soon (I still can't write c++...). It would give vtm a lot of applications instantly though (although ofcourse these apps would not integrate). I'll think about this a bit longer (how would this work, I doubt that official (n)curses would accept directvt as an addition until it's completely stable and there is a developer with proper knowledge (so not me) maintaining the port.

(this is... a mess of a message)

[o-sdn-o]

Hi!

Hereby the question: what is the current status of the application API (or do we use another term here), is it stable enough to start making bindings for it (I can start somewhere in june or juli) or rather how often are there changes right now, roughly?

At the moment I am working on bringing the XML-like markup language used in the configuration to the level of a declarative UI markup language with Lua scripting language integration. This causes constant changes both in the structure of the vtm settings file and in the architecture of vtm itself. Next, I plan to complete support for the GUI mode for X11 and macOS. After completing this work, I will be able to take on the creation of external APIs. Unfortunately, judging by the pace of my work, this may take more than a year. Despite the fact that at the moment it is possible to launch vtm-based applications as child processes and control them by sending Lua scripts via STDIO, I would hold off on doing anything based on this functionality for now.

I also got the idea of maybe it being possible to port (n?)curses to support drawing via directvt

Yes, I think it will be possible to do this, but I will be able to do this only after finishing the work on the GUI mode for X11 and macOS.