Re: Is there an API call as substitute to ESCDELAY environment variable ?

[Marc Rechté]

Le 02/03/2020 à 14:29, Pavel Stehule a écrit :
> po 2. 3. 2020 v 13:34 odesílatel Marc Rechté <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> napsal:
>
>
>
>     Le 02/03/2020 à 12:54, Pavel Stehule a écrit :
>      >
>      >
>      > po 2. 3. 2020 v 12:19 odesílatel Marc Rechté <address@hidden
>     <mailto:address@hidden>
>      > <mailto:address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>> napsal:
>      >
>      >     Hi,
>      >
>      >     I don't know where to post that question.
>      >
>      >     I need a non blocking version of getch, so I set
>     nodelay(stdscr, TRUE)
>      >
>      >     However the standard delay for distinguishing "esc" key from
>      >     "functions"
>      >     keys pressed is too high IMO.
>      >
>      >     According to man page, timeout() is not the function to use
>     for that
>      >     purpose.
>      >
>      >     Is there an alternative to setting ESCDELAY environment
>     variable before
>      >     launching the program ?
>      >
>      >
>      > for some not too old ncurses
>      >
>      > #ifdef NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS
>      >
>      >      set_escdelay(25);
>      >
>      > #endif
>      >
>      >
>      >     Thanks
>      >
>     OK, why is man page (Routine Name Index) not showing this function ?
>
>
> NAME
>         curs_threads - curses thread support
>
> SYNOPSIS
>         #include <curses.h>
>
>         typedef int (*NCURSES_WINDOW_CB)(WINDOW *, void *);
>         typedef int (*NCURSES_SCREEN_CB)(SCREEN *, void *);
>         int get_escdelay(void);
>         int set_escdelay(int size);
>         int set_tabsize(int size);
>         int use_screen(SCREEN *scr, NCURSES_SCREEN_CB func, void *data);
>         int use_window(WINDOW *win, NCURSES_WINDOW_CB func, void *data);
>
> I see it. Probably it depends on age of your ncurses's library
>
> Pavel

Thanks.

It is well documented in curs_threads.

The problem is that "man ncurses" does not list functions in curs_threads.

Check it out, I have the latest ncurses version.

So that's a documentation bug in /usr/share/man/man3/ncurses.3x.gz