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From: slh@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
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Subject: Re: curses attr*() and KEY_*
Summary: solved: #define  NLS
Keywords: curses attr*() KEY_* NLS
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.160340.8419@gibdo.engr.washington.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 16:13:11 GMT
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In article <1345@nlsun1.oracle.nl> hbergh@oracle.nl (Herbert van den Bergh) writes:
|In article <1991Apr23.073202.18324@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> slh@gibdo.engr.washington.edu () writes:
[stuff]
|I suggest you define NLS before including curses.h, because it seems
|that the getch() routine returns NLS codes. The return type of getch
|isn't int, but chtype, which is typedef'ed in curses.h, and different
|when compiled with or without NLS defined.
|
	(also suggested by Ed Spire to someone else's query)
	This worked; it got both the video attributes and KEY_* code working.
	As best I can tell from the include, the return type is int,
	although I did see the chtype stuff.
	I think it's bullshit I should have to define NLS to get this to work.
	Thanks.