Hi, all! The past two evenings i've made good progress on ncurses bindings for v8. The sources are available here:
http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/v8-addons/ It's currently got 83 bound functions, but a lot of bindings haven't yet been ported, so it's not all that terribly usable yet (e.g. you can create all the windows you want, but can't add text to them just yet). The original port (in SpiderMonkey/SpiderApe) wraps about 150 ncurses functions, so i've still got some work ahead of me (most copy/ paste/adjust-to-v8-api), but it shouldn't take more than a few more days. So, if you're into curses programming, you will soon be able to do it in v8. And if you're into curses but haven't yet tried it in JS, you're in for a treat. Writing curses apps in JS is several times faster than writing them in C, and JS is a perfect glue for the event model of curses, making it simple to attach arbitrary JS event handlers to keys. That said, it's *still* curses, so one still has to fight with it a bit sometimes ;). Happy hacking! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
