On UNIX Curses seems to work great, but Windoze is giving me the following error when I install the Curses module (which will be a prerequisite for POE::Wheel::Curses):

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C:\> ppm install Curses.ppd
Installing package 'Curses.ppd'...
Error installing package 'Curses.ppd': Read a PPD for 'Curses.ppd',
but it is not intended for this build of Perl
(MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)
(I downloaded Curses.ppd from ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/ and the ppm3 also found no matches).
I've posted to the ActiveState mailing list to check on this.
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Basically, I try to be impervious to Microsoft too, but it won't make me impervious to loosing marks in my project, so I should try another module. Do you know if any of the Tk/POE modules could help me? (all I need is keyboard input)

TIA,

James.



Sam Vilain wrote:

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:22, James Brown wrote;

  > Do you know if I can use the POE::Wheel::Curses on Windows as
  > well? (I'm supposed to be supporting both platforms).

I'm afraid I've got no idea; I have erected a shield around my soul,
which is impervious to MicroSoft software.  It's been almost a year
since the last serious breach.

ActiveState have a PPM for Curses[*] so it looks like the answer is
probably "yes".  Though it would pay to test your program actually
works in Windows more often than the day before your project is due
;).

I wouldn't trust the PPM for POE from ActiveState, however.  It's
badly out of date.

[*] - see http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/





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