My bindings for curses are pretty low-level, and I build functions to sort of act as macros where I want convenience, fwiw. I think it's important to honor the existing culture (ie: addressing in lines, columns versus more typical x,y) even though it's not how one might build it today.
$0.02 -bch On Jul 22, 2014 3:08 AM, "Stephan Beal" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all, > > for some reason i cannot explain, i've always been fascinated by that > absolutely horrible API known as "curses" (specifically, the every so > slightly more modern "ncurses"). Curses is difficult to work with and has > some of the worst API naming conventions one can imagine, but there's > something entrancing about it, as if it was embedded in my DNA 1000 > generations back. i can't help it. > > AFAIK, i was the first person to write JavaScript bindings for ncurses: > > http://spiderape.sourceforge.net/screenshots/ > > and now i'm struggling with the decision of how best to go about doing > something similar for the libfossil script bindings. There is one big > design decision which needs to be answered, and i'm looking for input from > those familiar with curses APIs: > > a) port the low-level API 1-to-1 (some semantics differences are needed > for script-space, but nothing too weird) > > b) supply only a higher-level API and hide the atrocious low-level API > behind it? > > The advantage of (A) is that one can always open up their local man pages > to see how a given API works (so (A) would keep the original (cryptic) API > names). Likewise, that's the main disadvantage of (B): users familiar with > curses would need to learn a new API and might find a higher-level API too > limiting. > > OTOH, the curses API (a standard, btw) is pretty ugly and difficult to use > properly, which almost begs for solution (B). i'm aware of the CDK (Curses > Development Kit), and CDK is a Good Thing, but i'm hesitant to wrap it > because then i'm stuck with that API (which i have never used). > > Opinions? > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of > those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > >
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