[Gambas-user] ncurses help texts missing

[Tobias Boege]

On Tue, 04 Feb 2014, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> 
> 
> 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...
> 

Wait a minute (or one or two hours, more likely). I'm halfways through a
quite comprehensive tutorial about basic usage:

 - printing text,
 - using attributes and colours,
 - creating dialogs.

Regards,
Tobi

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