From: Tobias Peters <tpeters@...>
Date: 2003-09-18T00:23:21+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby curses documentation ?

On 14 Aug 2003, Rudolf Polzer wrote:

> Scripsit ille �Tobias Peters� <tpeters@uni-oldenburg.de>:
> > ncurses-ruby requires NCurses or PDCurses and will not work with 
> > vendor-specific curses libs that ship with some proprietary unix 
> > systems. Ruby's own curses binding will most likely work with these.
> 
> Yes, but where is it documented?
> 
> I haven't found any documentation for ncurses-ruby or 'curses'...
> but for ncurses I have the Linux manpages and the rest was guessing.

A 100 pages tutorial about NCurses programming is here: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.pdf

If you prefer reference documentation, go for the various manpages.

The difference between the C API and the ncurses-ruby API is documented in 
the README file (~ 4 pages) of the ncurses-ruby distribution.

The API difference of the standard ruby curses binding is AFAIK not 
documented, but you will easily figure it out with sufficient NCurses 
programming knowledge.

  Tobias