On 8/28/25 19:50, Thomas Dickey wrote:
yes. but:
With PDCurses/PDCursesMod, you're displaying onto a device that doesn't
require workarounds. A pixel is a pixel.
Um. A fair point. PDCurses* does have platforms that require some
odd workarounds (DOS, Windows console, OS/2), but they're usually
simpler than some of the issues you're going to run into with ncurses
and its (much) wider range of platforms. Obviously, any platform where
we can just set pixels and get the RGB values we want (X11, Linux
framebuffer, Windows GUI, etc.) is a _lot_ simpler.>
In an ideal universe, contributors would further extend it. Of course,
this isn't ideal. So we have full-time complainers. Not contributors.
It helps to read the comments which I put in the terminfo.src file,
since the complainers don't actually use why I say.
That's the price you pay for success :) More users, more
complainers. Those of us who could, theoretically, contribute are
usually off working on our own projects (I read recently that something
like 80% of all open source projects have exactly one contributor, the
"project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining
since 2003".)
On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 11:41:07AM -0400, Bill Gray wrote:
(Suffices, albeit barely, for a picture-drawing program on a 1920x1080
display with a 2x4 pixel font, where each cell may have its own color pair.
I think that's 259200 cells: 1920 * 1080 / 8
(Groan) Need coffee... I'll have to give it a try with a 1x2 pixel
font; I see no reason it should fail.
-- Bill
