On Thursday, 25 October 2012 at 22:27:52 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote:
5. setting the contents of the title bar
The title bar of what?
Here's how you do it on xterm:
writefln("\033]0;%s\007", title);
On Windows it is an api function:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686050%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
6. supporting cut/paste
Don't know how to do this? Anybody a starting point?
I wouldn't worry about it up front, the system will give simple
stuff for you and getting it right is a bit of a pain because you
have to bring in other api calls (on both Windows and Linux;
linux will need some X11 calls I believe.)
7. getting no-echo raw input
Tried this but couldn't make it work yet. This is useful for
passwords prompts, right?
Here's a brief example for unix:
http://arsdnet.net/dcode/input.d
On Windows I'm almost certain it is actually easier but I haven't
done that for a while and don't remember it right now.
The reason my code there puts it in a struct is so it is
automatically put back to the previous mode when you go out of
scope.
8. setting the size of the cursor
The size of the cursor? Why should I want to change its size?
There's a way to do this on windows i'm pretty sure and it is
hit and miss on linux - sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.
But a reason you might want it is to visually indicate the
difference between insert and overwrite mode.
In a text editor for instance, a short cursor means insert. If
you press the insert key on the keyboard, you switch to replace
mode, and a taller cursor can show that.
Jens
