Hello everybody,
PDCurses Portability interress me, although MS Windows does not
interress me at all! But now, I want to build a software emulating a
processor (the MC6801) running the monitor program "Lilbug" and my friends,
if not the rest of the world, use MS Windows.
I roll Opensuse 12.2 KDE3.5 and had to search the net, for finally be
able to compile PDCurses, with these added libraries:
libICE-devel, libxaw6, libXaw8, libXpm-devel, libSM-devel, libXext-devel,
libXt-devel, libXmu-devel libXaw-devel-32bit libXaw8, libxmu6-32bit
libxaw7-32bit-32bit libxaw6, libXaw-devel-32bit-32bit libxmuu1,
libXmu-devel-32bit-32bit libXt-devel, libX11-devel-32bit
Finally the X11 directory was generously topped with object files, and
these executables:
PDCurses-3.4/x11/xmas
PDCurses-3.4/x11/worm
PDCurses-3.4/x11/tuidemo
PDCurses-3.4/x11/testcurs
PDCurses-3.4/x11/rain
PDCurses-3.4/x11/ptest
PDCurses-3.4/x11/newdemo
PDCurses-3.4/x11/firework
My first problem: when I run one of these commands from a
terminal "Konsole", another window opens, where nothing is happening, and
system resources are stretched, occupying one of the cores to 100%. Could
someone tell me, please, how to finish correctly and test the installation?
In "Lilbug", as in so many other monitor-debuggers, I should replace the
expectation of a character from an RS232 terminal by routines in C waiting
for a caracter typed by the user in a PDCurses terminal. I wish I could write
a non-blocking routine "is a character available?" that returns the character
if available, and another displaying the characters passed as a parameter,
assuming that the emulated terminal will execute the "\r" and "\n" as did
teletype in 1970. And thus arises the echo / time problems and others needs
of X terminals. My second question is: would there sample source code to meet
my "so basic" needs? Please, note that I do not need any (for the incoming
caracters) buffering, meaning that some incoming caracter(s) could be lost…
Thank you for the attention you have brought to this email.
Patrick
