On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Patrick Serru <patr...@serru.net> wrote:
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%. > I suspect you're running into the problem described here: http://sourceforge.net/p/pdcurses/bugs/86/ I should probably roll out a 3.5 to address this, since Xorg apparently isn't going to fix it as I had anticipated, and I haven't made that much progress on my single-process X backend. In the meantime, please try the CVS version of PDCurses. I wish I could write > a non-blocking routine "is a character available?" that returns the > character > if available, getch() is fine for this. Just call nodelay() first. > 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. > I'm not entirely sure what you're asking here. However, everything from addch() through printw() will interpret '\r' and '\n' as expected.
