Re: [Cgdb-devel] ncurses vs curses

[Mike M. <mmu...@cs...>]

I agree... we shouldn't give up on curses until it proves to be too 
difficult to maintain...  Even if some features are absent, I don't 
see a good reason to exclude curses users from using cgdb.

Mike

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Peter Kovacs wrote:

: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?
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:- Peter
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:On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:02:11PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
:> 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 
:> refresh the full screen at start, only parts  where it have real text 
:> to display. Ok, it's just a matter of resizing window a bit to force 
:> a display refresh, but ... as i said, it's the only bothering thing 
:> (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
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