Re: Darwin Curses getch question

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:05:06PM -0500, Howard Feldman wrote:
> 
> I recently set up a MacOSX 10.1/Darwin machine, and tried to build one
> of my Curses programs on it.  The curses seems to be quite limited on
> this OS though - no color support even.  Anyways, my question is, the
> "nodelay" function is not available in the curses.h on this OS either. 
> Is there some other way to read keys from the keyboard without waiting
> for a response?

Darwin doesn't come with ncurses, as you note.  Whether ncurses works
well on Darwin - I don't know, myself since I don't have a powerpc, etc.
 
> I tried to install ncurses but to no avail.  Apple (or whoever) has
> cleverly integrated the crippled curses library with the main System
> library, so that libncurses then has a bunch of symbol conflicts with
> the System library (which you obviously cant NOT link with).
> Im sure Im not the first one to encounter this problem and was hoping
> someone could offer me some insight in how to get around this problem.

there are a few people who have gotten ports to work - look in the
NEWS file, with the post-5.2 patches at
        ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.2

> I know programs like pico and top work on MacOSX and these scan the
> keyboard in a similar way I think, so there must be another way right?
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> 
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