Re: wide chars functions don't work

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:48:20AM +0100, Gerhard H?ring wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I begin to wonder if anybody ever has actually used the wide character
> functions in ncurses ...

a few
 
> I have found zero actual code using them. This is what I've tried:
> 
> #include "ncursesw/ncurses.h"
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
>     initscr();
      normally I expect to see a raw or cbreak call here

>     curs_set(0);
> 
>     getch();
>     
>     addwstr(L"hallo");
      and this is the bug you're reporting (sorry about that).
      It looks as if Skimo's got a patch already.

>     refresh();
>     getch();
> 
>     curs_set(1);
      this call isn't needed btw...

>     endwin();
> 
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> Now, are these functions actually implemented in ncurses? As far as I
> can see in ddd, the wstr functions/macros keep calling themselves
> recursively.

mea culpa (in context, this happens if I overlook some of the definitions
needed to make lib_gen.c build properly).
 
> (In the end, I want to use these functions from Python)
> 
> Is this a bug?

that's what is known as a rhetorical question...
 
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