On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Jeff Barnes
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I've seen posts and blogs advising against this, but I need to grab debug output from a library and print it to an ncurses window. I've tried code like the following, but it doesn't work and corrupts the terminal window. What do I have to do to grab the library stderr output and wprintw it to a WINDOW?
If you're able to use C++ and your application only uses std::cerr to output to stderr (as opposed to fprintf() or similar) then it's really easy to redirect stderr (or stdout, or any std::ostream) to an arbitrary WINDOW. See the nc_window_streambuf class in this these files:
It can be used like this:
nc_window_streambuf buf( myWindow, std::cerr );
This swaps out the stream's buffer object for the lifetime of 'buf'. When buf goes out of scope (or is otherwise destructed) then the target stream's buffer is re-set to its old state.
i've been using that approach for years to capture std::cout and std::cerr to _javascript_-scripted curses windows. When curses mode is shut down the "interceptor buffer" is killed off and cout/cerr return to their normal behaviours.