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From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: A/UX 2.0 curses - buggy at the best ?
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.225350.16448@nada.kth.se>
Date: 20 Jan 91 22:53:50 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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I've tried to use the supplied AUX curses library, and run into
some troubles:
 
1) The input may allow 8bit characters after calling meta ( ), but
   the screen sure doesn't.
 
2) A_BOLD changes the spacing of the text as well as boldifying it.
   Making this work in a sensible way would be trivial. (This might
   be how CommandShell is handling the escape sequences. Still a
   piece of cake)
 
3) The keypad ( ) numbers don't work very well either - the arrow
   keys aren't reported until I press another key after them. This
   even though I use nodelay ( ) .
 
4) Pressing the left key using TERM mac2 (the large console window)
   results in immediate crash (some error reports rolled by too fast
   for me to read before I was logged out)
 
Maybe I would like a way to make CommandShell generate function
key codes as well. Wouldn't it be nice ?
 
The software has to be portable, so I can't use native mac
windowing :-(
 
This is all on a 8/80 IIfx with 13" 8bit color set to 1 bit and
various extra hardware. I compile with gcc, since the native CC
doesn't support ANSI style function prototypes. Otherwise the
A/UX 2.0 is fairly vanilla off the CD. It doesn't work in the
console emulator either, so you can't blame the mac environment.
 
Thanx for any answer,
 
                                                        h+


Jon W{tte, Stockholm, Sweden, h+@nada.kth.se
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