Re: [Cgdb-devel] ncurses vs curses

[Peter K. <pe...@ko...>]

I say we should still try to offer minimal support for curses.  Sure
throw in all the bells and whistles if you're using ncurses, but perhaps
at least try to get something usable when using curses?

- Peter

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:02:11PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
> Hi guys,
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> I recieved this bug report today via Email.
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> 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)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> What do you guys think?
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> Bobby



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Peter D. Kovacs <pe...@ko...>