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RE: ncurses++ and maintenance thereof
From: |
Jürgen Pfeifer |
Subject: |
RE: ncurses++ and maintenance thereof |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 01:51:13 +0200 |
> So... This brings the following questions:
> 1. Is anyone maintaining these classes and, if so, how do I
> contact?
Not really. This was a weekend hack.
> 2. Are these classes in enough use to prohibit renaming some members?
>
Based on the almost zero feedback I don't think so. But who knows.
>3. Is there any reason NOT to use some STL in the implementations?
>
The time this stuff was written STL was far from being usable with g++.
That's different now.
> FYI, Some of the functionality I intend to add:
> 1. Menu choices displaying details on a "status line" if so
> allocated 2. Current field details ditto 3. ESC key
> additionally available to exit-cancel a menu or form 4.
> Accessing Pad driver outside of Pad's own loop (for an
> external loop) 5. Swapping in new SLKs for active forms/fields
>
All this can easily be done with the classes as they are. I prefer
not to add all and everything into the classes but only what is
available in the C APIs.
Jürgen