On Tue, 04 Feb 2014, Tobias Boege wrote: > On Tue, 04 Feb 2014, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > > > > > > Am 04.02.2014 09:46, schrieb Tobias Boege: > > > On Tue, 04 Feb 2014, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > > >> Hi Tobias, > > >> > > >> your name is mentioned as the author of the ncurses component. Is that > > >> right? > > >> > > > > > > Yes, that's right. > > > > > >> Anyway, I wanted to play around a bit with ncurses and found this > > >> component. A long time ago, I tried to write a program with ncurses but > > >> gave up when I had to find the screen dimensions (the original C > > >> function uses a pointer thing I couldn't make workable for my Gambas > > >> program). So thanks you've done it for me :) > > >> > > >> But the help texts aren't ready yet, and I miss some short examples on > > >> how to start by making a window and so on. > > >> > > >> Are the undocumented functions not ready yet, or is it that the help > > >> texts aren't complete yet? > > >> > > > > > > The help just isn't written. The component itself didn't change since 3.3 > > > or > > > so. Not that I am totally confident with it but it's working as it should > > > at > > > this point. > > > > > > Some things missing (actually, the whole menu and forms extensions of > > > ncurses and wide character support!), etc. and I also want to add a > > > gb.ncurses.cdk component based on the CDK library which implements > > > controls > > > in terminal but I have to design this carefully - and maybe even break > > > gb.ncurses' API (very slightly if at all!). This is why I'm stuck > > > programming > > > and if the programming isn't done, I struggle to do the documentation :-) > > > > > > There are gb.ncurses examples: Pong and Invaders (the last one still not > > > finished in regard to game logic) in the Games section. But if you told me > > > that these don't help gb.ncurses newbies, I would agree... > > > > > > I'm actually not that fit anymore with gb.ncurses :-) but today afternoon > > > I'll put some lines together about the basics. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Tobi > > > > > > And now off to the Linear Algebra test ;-) > > > > > > > Uuuuh - good luck! > > > > Just give me some hint how to start, and we could write some help texts > > and little examples. Although I don't have too much time right now, I > > would be able to help out a bit here... > > > > Wait a minute (or one or two hours, more likely). I'm halfways through a > quite comprehensive tutorial about basic usage: > > - printing text, > - using attributes and colours, > - creating dialogs. >
Almost everything is in place here[0]. With the last little paragraph, I'll continue tomorrow as it's time for a break now. I've also prepared a project containing all the snippets presented which I will complete and upload tomorrow, too. Hope it helps. Note that I needed to fix some bugs I encountered while putting the code together so you better use the latest revision to test ;-) Regards, Tobi [0] http://gambasdoc.org/help/tutorial/ncursestut?v3 -- "There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever!" -- Mr. Monk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
