[Gambas-devel] To Tobias : about gb.ncurses interface

[Benoît Minisini]

Hi Tobi,

Here is a few (strong) suggestions about the gb.ncurses interface :-)

This is mainly some symbol renaming for simplification and coherency 
with other components.

Tell me of course if you disagree or if you have a better solution!

Color class
-----------

I suggest splitting the class, and having a Color class for colors, and 
a Pair class for pairs.

Color.Capabilities.Color ---> Color.Available

Color.Capabilities.Change ---> Color.CanChange

Color.Colors ---> Color.Count

Color[] ---> Pair[]

Color.Pairs ---> Pair.Count

Color.Content & Color.Define ---> Color[].{Red,Green,Blue}

Color.Define ---> Color.Set

I strongly suggest to use floating point values between 0.0 and 1.0 for 
color components, and not the library values between 0 and 1000.

Window class
------------

ContainerW & ContainerH: I don't like the name of these properties. :-)

Are they really useful? Can't we assume that the window border is always 
one character?

Otherwise, can't you have X,Y,W,H property for the outer, and 
ClientX,ClientY,ClientW,ClientH for the inner, like in gui components?

Screen class
------------

Screen.Repeater ---> Screen.RepeatDelay

That's all at the moment! Now waiting for your comments...

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini