[Gambas-user] ncurses help texts missing

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 04.02.2014 09:46, schrieb Tobias Boege:
> On Tue, 04 Feb 2014, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
>> Hi Tobias,
>>
>> your name is mentioned as the author of the ncurses component. Is that
>> right?
>>
>
> Yes, that's right.
>
>> Anyway, I wanted to play around a bit with ncurses and found this
>> component. A long time ago, I tried to write a program with ncurses but
>> gave up when I had to find the screen dimensions (the original C
>> function uses a pointer thing I couldn't make workable for my Gambas
>> program). So thanks you've done it for me :)
>>
>> But the help texts aren't ready yet, and I miss some short examples on
>> how to start by making a window and so on.
>>
>> Are the undocumented functions not ready yet, or is it that the help
>> texts aren't complete yet?
>>
>
> The help just isn't written. The component itself didn't change since 3.3 or
> so. Not that I am totally confident with it but it's working as it should at
> this point.
>
> Some things missing (actually, the whole menu and forms extensions of
> ncurses and wide character support!), etc. and I also want to add a
> gb.ncurses.cdk component based on the CDK library which implements controls
> in terminal but I have to design this carefully - and maybe even break
> gb.ncurses' API (very slightly if at all!). This is why I'm stuck programming
> and if the programming isn't done, I struggle to do the documentation :-)
>
> There are gb.ncurses examples: Pong and Invaders (the last one still not
> finished in regard to game logic) in the Games section. But if you told me
> that these don't help gb.ncurses newbies, I would agree...
>
> I'm actually not that fit anymore with gb.ncurses :-) but today afternoon
> I'll put some lines together about the basics.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
> And now off to the Linear Algebra test ;-)
>

Uuuuh - good luck!

Just give me some hint how to start, and we could write some help texts 
and little examples. Although I don't have too much time right now, I 
would be able to help out a bit here...

Rolf