Trass3r wrote: > >You could use ANSI codes on posix to avoid a dependency on curses: > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors > >But I think using curses is ok. ncurses is MIT licensed and can be > >used as a dynamic library, so I don't think there are license problems. > > > >However, I'd recommend to load ncurses dynamically with dlopen/dlsym > >and fallback to simple text output if the ncurses library cannot be > >loaded. > > +1 > There shouldn't be a hard dependency on curses.
I had the impression that even though there is this standard how do I know that I have a standard-compliant terminal. Can I just assume this? I started using curses because I had the impression there may be non-standard terminals. But this seems to be minor issue. I will change this if people are happy with Windows and ISO/IEC 6429 compliant terminals only. Thanks. Jens
