[Gambas-user] ncurses component

[tobi]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> 
> Am 25.03.2012 14:42, schrieb tobi:
> > Benoît,
> >
> > do you think an ncurses component would be useful? i abandoned the X server with the beginning of
> > the year and when i noticed that i would need a console ide for gambas, i began writing one (cut
> > down to my personal needs of course) using ncurses library. as it went more complicated i
> > appended it to the long queue of to-do projects ;)
> > but yesterday i realised that having an ncurses component in gambas would make things a lot easier,
> > the console ide could be written in gambas (what an idea!)
> > on the other hand: who needs ncurses nowadays? what do you think, is it a waste of time or a
> > valuable addition?
> >
> > (hope, the accent works, i searched about an hour for that - and can't even see the result)
> >
> > regards,
> > tobi
> >
> 
> The accent works :-) And I like the ncurses idea, in fact I had such an 
> idea some time ago. Don't remember what I wanted to do with it, but 
> after realizing the complexity, I simply wrote some routines for colours 
> and stuff, the rest was purely playing around a bit. Nothing serious.
> 
> Rolf
> 

well, i'd volunteer but i can't estimate any time needed for a basically usable result.
i'm an 11th grade student so more important things may pop up in near future... (in case you
worry, i think (as a least instance) i'm capable of writing clean (concerning memory), structured
and reliable code -- but as the ncurses faq says, the library doesn't like to free(3) its
internal stuff for it may be needed later; unless you configure it to do so...)

as soon as i figured out how to write components for gambas using the c interface, i'll start
anyway...

regards,
tobi