additionally ncurses are usefull for apps which run in a remote ssh console. That's why admins love these apps. They can have gui apps without running X.
Στις 26/3/2012 18:38, ο/η tobi έγραψε: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: >> Am 25.03.2012 14:42, schrieb tobi: >>> Benoît, >>> >>> do you think an ncurses component would be useful? i abandoned the X server >>> with the beginning of >>> the year and when i noticed that i would need a console ide for gambas, i >>> began writing one (cut >>> down to my personal needs of course) using ncurses library. as it went more >>> complicated i >>> appended it to the long queue of to-do projects ;) >>> but yesterday i realised that having an ncurses component in gambas would >>> make things a lot easier, >>> the console ide could be written in gambas (what an idea!) >>> on the other hand: who needs ncurses nowadays? what do you think, is it a >>> waste of time or a >>> valuable addition? >>> >>> (hope, the accent works, i searched about an hour for that - and can't even >>> see the result) >>> >>> regards, >>> tobi >>> >> The accent works :-) And I like the ncurses idea, in fact I had such an >> idea some time ago. Don't remember what I wanted to do with it, but >> after realizing the complexity, I simply wrote some routines for colours >> and stuff, the rest was purely playing around a bit. Nothing serious. >> >> Rolf >> > well, i'd volunteer but i can't estimate any time needed for a basically > usable result. > i'm an 11th grade student so more important things may pop up in near > future... (in case you > worry, i think (as a least instance) i'm capable of writing clean (concerning > memory), structured > and reliable code -- but as the ncurses faq says, the library doesn't like to > free(3) its > internal stuff for it may be needed later; unless you configure it to do > so...) > > as soon as i figured out how to write components for gambas using the c > interface, i'll start > anyway... > > regards, > tobi > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
