is there any flashcard application, game or edu?

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:38:42PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:23:43AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 	Maybe somebody knows this one: is there a game or educational
> > 	app that will popup a small frame with a question and space for
> > 	answer? Say: "What is the capitol of Kansas? or What is the cube
> > 	root of 8?
> > 
> > 	The questions and answers could be in a textfile:
> > 
> > 	#Q					#A
> > 	What is the capitol of Kansas?		Topeka
> > 	What is the cube root of 8?		2
> > 
> > 	I'm thinking of something very simple that could be expanded 
> > 	over time.  Linux has something that's pretty near what I'm
> > 	aiming for, but it breaks--I'm obviously missing some libraries.
> > 	After looking for four days I thought I'd ask here.
> > 
> > 	thanks for any clues,
> > 
> > 	gary
> > 
> > 	PS:  I could probably knock something out in a half hour using
> > 	/bin/sh but I'd rather have something more graphic and flexible.
> 
> You could check out curses/ncurses.   There is a man page.
> It might be overkill for what you want, but you can look.
> It takes some effort to get started, but is not too bad to
> keep adding to.
> 
> I actually just do this sort of thing in a quickie web page and
> run it through a browser.    It only takes some simple tables.
> If you want to read in the answers, a Perl or PHP script will
> take care of it nicely.
> 

	Yeah, I was thinking of exactly that; usring a random function
	and php4 and some web pages:: quick and dirty//(half-clean?:-)
	since I've already got that implemented.  Is there a tk/tcl
	app to create popups on-the-fly?

	Anyway, thanks for your insights,

	gary

	
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