Le 28/03/2012 21:29, tobi a écrit : > hi, > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, tobi wrote: >> 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 > > don't want to be annoying but: > after having to read about those nifty configure scripts, i'm to face the > first obstacle. > this code works: > > ----- > ' Gambas module file > > Public Sub Main() > > NCurses.On() > NCurses.Print("this is text", 10, 10) > NCurses.Attributes = NCurses.Bold Or NCurses.Reverse > Print " this is a brave test." > NCurses.Print("next line", , 11) > NCurses.WaitKey() > NCurses.Off() > > End > ----- > > but as the docs about programming components in c/c++ reasonably say, this is > rather c-style and > not suitable for the gambas language. (at the moment, there is one static > object NCurses - i want > to discover the api further before writing any serious classes). > > the Print() _function_ takes optionally x,y coordinates from which to print > the text using ncurses. > i thought, it would be better to just use the Print instruction to print text > instead of this > function all over again - this is just not aesthetic (but bearable?). > while the Print _instruction_ works fine for that - tried also with multiple > ncurses WINDOWs > present - it always prints after the current cursor position, no matter > what's there. that's the > same with the ncurses functions, the main problem is that i turned on some > attributes which are > handled by the library, too. the text from the Print instruction doesn't get > bold and video reversed. > consequently, one may never use Print instruction to stdout in ncurses mode > and this option has > departed... > i had the weirdest ideas of redirecting stdout, to which Print prints, to a > stream object inside the > ncurses component, reading from that and printing the data with the ncurses > functions, but that's > quite too strange... > > any suggestions/ideas about a suitable interface for something that > fundamental? or may the above > code fit? (i appear to not often use the ncurses mvwprintw() in any bigger > thing without having > built a wrapper around it or controlled it via a loop, so this may really fit > as is...) > > regards, > tobi >
Can we talk about that on the gambas-devel mailing-list please? -- Benoît Minisini ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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