From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2009-01-15T01:58:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ncurses like library?

2009/1/14 Tim Mcd <tmcdowell@gmail.com>:
> Andy Cooper wrote:
>>> Hi, this might help:
>>>
>>> http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=ruby+ncurses&l=1
>>>
>>> Jesus.
>>
>> Why is it that site never gets old?
>> Especially when it comes to the 2-3 Ncurses questions a day.
>
> Yeah, that ruby-ncurses binding isn't the best, lots of methods are
> missing and other little things (like 'include Ncurses' not working
> correctly). Any OTHER TUI libraries?

If you look through the forum somebody suggested curses FFI bindings I
think but I don't know how far that got.

If you find the ruby curses bindings insufficient, post about its
deficiencies so that they can be worked out.

I personally do not use them because they cannot do multibyte
characters but that's not limitation of these bindings but of the
version 1.8 of the Ruby interpreter - it cannot use locales correctly.

Thanks

Michal