Re: lynx-dev OT: ncurses for MingW

[Gisle Vanem]

"Thomas Dickey" <address@hidden> said:

> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> 
> > This is a bit off-topic and is really a question for Thomas.
> >
> > I have a program that I'd like to port to MingW. Only problem is
> > that it makes heavy use of ncurses and it's forms, fields and menus.
> > I've built PD-curses and S-Lang with MingW but it lacks a lot of
> > ncurses functions.
> 
> for example?

Some missing functions:
set_menu_sub,set_menu_mark,set_menu_grey,set_menu_back,
set_menu_fore,post_menu,new_item,set_field_back,current_field,
form_driver,wenclose, etc, etc.

> PDCurses "should" work.  It does have a panel library.  For ncurses's
> form/menu libraries - I'm not sure how much work it would be to make
> them run with PDCurses.

A lot it seems, but I'll give it a shot.
 
--gv


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