developing user interface

[padawan]

Hello everybody, i'm trying to code a program that exec some commands and show the result of those commands... the user interface should be something like this:

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| Here users can see
| result of command
| typed and some other
| statistics
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| and here they should be able to type...
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It's something like irssi interface.

They should be able to scroll output of commands, but the last line (where they type cmds) must be fixed on the bottom of the screen.

How can i do this? any idea?

P.S.: the program runs under linux.

[RedX]

It sounds like a console programm. Maybe the ncurses library is what you seek.

[Albatross]

If you don't want a console program, then you'll need a library for GUIs. I recommend QT4.
http://qt.nokia.com/products
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/

-Albatross