From: Tobias Peters <tpeters@...>
Date: 2002-07-23T19:06:08+09:00
Subject: Re: ncurses and ruby

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Doug Kearns wrote:
> You might like to have a look at the ncurses library written by Tobias
> Peters. It doesn't try and provide a higher level abstraction so all
> existing ncurses documentation is relevant.

> http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de/

Thanks for pointing there ;). The only enhancement that this binding
provides is that you can call functions that operate on/in WINDOWs by
sending messages to them. So its possible to rewrite
  Ncurses::wmove(window,y,x)
as
  window.move(y,x)

But all the C functions are still there and accessible...

> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 06:52:32AM +0900, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> > only show very basic functionality... how complete is the curses bind
> > (does it include the forms library?)  and are their any *good* examples
> > i might find to illustrate it?

My ncurses binding also wraps the panel library, but neither the menu nor 
the form library. They could be wrapped quite similar to the panel 
library, and I'd happily accept patches and / or co-developers doing that. 

Tobias