Re: what parts depend on X ?

[Patrick]

> Not that I know. The last time I ran a program like that, it would 
> draw the line chars just well. Perhaps something is brohkenz with your 
> termcap or console-tools installation. How do you draw the window 
> borders? can you post a link to your test pgm?
>
> I believe the mouse input can be got with gpm in the text terminal. Or 
> perhaps that was just for copy&paste.. Not sure tho if that still 
> exists/works..
> oh, there:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPM_%28software%29>
Thanks Johann

I am actually mixing C and er... cobol(don't throw things at me..!)

I split off the cobol and tried to cut things down for a simple example. 
I am boxing subwindows.

Thanks for the gpm link I didn't know this.

Thanks again-Patrick





#include <ncurses.h>
WINDOW *sentence_build;

int main() {
initscr();
create_sentence_subwins() ;
getch() ;
endwin() ;
return 0 ;
}

int create_sentence_subwins(void)
{
    start_color();
    init_pair(1,COLOR_YELLOW,COLOR_BLACK);
    init_pair(2,COLOR_YELLOW,COLOR_BLACK);

sentence_build = subwin(stdscr,3,81,0,0);
    if(sentence_build== NULL)
    {     endwin();     puts("Unable to create sentence build 
window\n");         return(1);     }

wbkgd( sentence_build,COLOR_PAIR(2) );
box(sentence_build,0,0);

    refresh();
    return 0;
}