On Fri, 15 May 2015 17:24:03 -0500 Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/15/2015 01:40 PM, Kartik Agaram wrote: > > Rob, I just had your post from the 27th pop up on my RSS reader: > > http://www.landley.net/notes-2015.html#27-04-2015 > > Technically this is a toybox question. :) > > > Are you aware of https://github.com/nsf/termbox? A few weeks ago I > > replaced ncurses with it in my project > > (http://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme), and the version I've inlined > > there is even smaller and even more self-contained (no waf-fling). > > I've looked at a few, but basically the hard part is the keyboard > scanning function: > > https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/lib/interestingtimes.c#L89 > > Which still isn't actually that hard, especially since I had to > rewrite busybox's implementation way back when because they did it > wrong, ala these two commits: > > http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=988dd5549bc7 > http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=5e38cd910aca > > Already had rather extensive learning experiences here, so I might as > well just implement the result. Once you understand it, it's _really_ > not that hard, the sequences are documented and everything: > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/console_codes.4.html > > (There's also xterm's > http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html and the ANSI > x3.64 standard http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/~tapted/ansi.html > and so on, but the console_codes is mostly a common subset.) > > Also, back in that bulletin board system I mentioned (written back in > 1990), I implemented my own ansi handler that maintained a screen > write buffer so I could essentially do virtual terminals in dos. Mine > could show you ~3 lines of each (cursor and two lines above it, > unless that goes above top of screen in which case top 3 lines). > Meaning I got very familiar with the dos version ansi escape > sequences at one point because I wrote my own driver for it, and my > limiting factor is it's been so long I don't necessarily remember the > details and have to look them up again. > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Aboriginal mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/aboriginal-landley.net Boxes has this already, naturally. B-) -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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