Am 05.02.2014 18:15, schrieb Tobias Boege: > On Tue, 04 Feb 2014, Tobias Boege wrote: >> 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 >> > > OK, now it's ready and has a source code archive. Let me know if you have > any suggestions. (Maybe one or the other screenshot would be nice?) > > Regards, > Tobi >
Thanks a lot, I'll take that with me into the weekend and browse through it as soon as I find some time for it. Will be back on you next week, have a nice weekend! Regards Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
