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question about low-levels windows emulation of curses
From: |
Rapp, Perry |
Subject: |
question about low-levels windows emulation of curses |
Date: |
Sat, 25 May 2002 01:36:03 -0400 |
I'm working on a Win32 emulation of curses.
It is fairly primitive, but it does the job
for the Windows port of lifelines (lifelines.sourceforge.net).
(I've just added arrows & page up/down & home/end keys,
and hit a bug described in #1 below.)
Anyway, I've two questions:
#1a) Does anyone know how to use ReadConsoleInput
to read keys on MS-Windows without wrecking the
Alt shortcuts to generate non-ascii input ?
I suppose this is not an ncurses question, but I
had thought whoever did the Windows part of ncurses
might have hit the same snag I'm hitting, however,
#2 means I may not get any help here :)
#1b) Any suggested directions, where I might find someone
who has done an MS-Windows version of curses code ?
#2) On the gnu ncurses home page, the TODO seems to imply
the gnu ncurses package has no MS-Windows port. Now
this emulation file is a fairly primitive implementation
(it doesn't do panels or menus, and does not use any
terminfo or termcap db -- it only works with console
windows under MS-Windows), but it is open source -- so if
anyone wants to add it or some portion to ncurses, please
let me know.
#3) re: ncurses/README typo
In the ncurses-5.2 package I just downloaded now, the
ncurses/README file says to see misc/hackguide.html,
but that file is not present. However, there is a file
doc/hackguide.doc.
Cordially,
Perry
(I'm not subscribed to the ncurses list, which looks very high traffic,
but I can check it via web to see if I get a response.)
- question about low-levels windows emulation of curses,
Rapp, Perry <=