From: Richard Lyman <lymans@...>
Date: 2005-12-04T03:20:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Curses about libcurse

Is there something specifically that you've been trying to do but couldn't?

Is it just the quality or speed of development that is annoying you?

I ask only because I'm thinking about writing an Ncurses app, so feel
free to 'dump'.

-Rich



On 12/3/05, zimba-tm <zimba.tm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hate curses. Not that much, but it's really not that easy to build
> ruby console applications using it.
>
> Are there other libraries I could use instead of libcurses ?
>
> My main complains are :
>  * you can't access the screen like a character matrix
>  * i want callbacks (onresize)
>  * you need to move the cursor where you want to write
>  * the "window"ing system is not cool
>  * it really feels like an old-skool C library in ruby
>
> I started overriding the curses library to implement what I think is
> nicer (which is subjective). Is anybody interested in this ? Also,
> what is so special in the libcurse ? Is it because it supports VT100
> that people are still using it ?
>
> The joined file containes the modified curses class plus an class that
> demonstrates how to use it (however it doesn't run)
>
> --
> Cheers,
>   zimba
>
> http://zimba.oree.ch
>
>
>