[Cgdb-devel] ncurses vs curses

[Bob R. <bob...@co...>]

Hi guys,

I recieved this bug report today via Email.

The only ( minor ) thing that bothers me is that my xterms have a white
background by default, while cgdb use a black one, and, halas, do not=20
refresh the full screen at start, only parts  where it have real text=20
to display. Ok, it's just a matter of resizing window a bit to force=20
a display refresh, but ... as i said, it's the only bothering thing=20
(and nearly the only reason to continue checking for new cgdb versions)



So, I decided to look into fixing the default color cgdb uses.
Well it seems that I can't find a way to do it in curses. I can only
find an extension to ncurses that does the trick. The 2 functions
use_default_colors and assume_default_colors are ncurses extensions.

So, I already fixed the bug by changing several lines of code in cgdb.
However, it only works if the user links with ncurses. Not curses.
So I thought maybe we should just stop supporting curses, Since it
doesn't by our users much.

What do you guys think?

Bobby