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RE: ncurses++ and maintenance thereof


From: Jürgen Pfeifer
Subject: RE: ncurses++ and maintenance thereof
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 01:51:13 +0200

> So... This brings the following questions:
> 1. Is anyone maintaining these classes and, if so, how do I 
> contact? 
Not really. This was a weekend hack.

> 2. Are these classes in enough use to prohibit renaming some members?
>
Based on the almost zero feedback I don't think so. But who knows. 

>3. Is there any reason NOT to use some STL in the implementations?
>
The time this stuff was written STL was far from being usable with g++.
That's different now.
 
> FYI, Some of the functionality I intend to add:
> 1. Menu choices displaying details on a "status line" if so 
> allocated 2. Current field details ditto 3. ESC key 
> additionally available to exit-cancel a menu or form 4. 
> Accessing Pad driver outside of Pad's own loop (for an 
> external loop) 5. Swapping in new SLKs for active forms/fields
> 
All this can easily be done with the classes as they are. I prefer
not to add all and everything into the classes but only what is
available in the C APIs.

Jürgen




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