Re: [Dev-C++] pdcurses ?

[Martin D. <nex...@qu...>]

Big Playah wrote:

>Hi,
>
>is anybody familiar with pdcurses? or curses at all...
>I've decided to go back to character mode and not hessle with win32
>and other unnecessary (for me) things.
>the dev-cpp port of conio misses the window function, so I've dropped
>it too, and came up with pdcurses.
>it knows many things, lacks only a few, but... is it really good for
>working in a dos box? I don't need much portability and like things
>which curses were originally designed for... but need some speed of
>complex screen handling (editor/emulator purposes)...
>opinions?
>I can get along with the dev-cpp conio pack as well, but pdcurses
>offers me so much more...
>TIA,
>
>tom
>
>ps. I'm already convinced not to go win32, tried but didn't make any
>good, that is no question... turbovision is way too complicated for my
>projects, partly because never used it, and don't can't spend the time
>learning it - at least not now...
>  
>
Hi,
you can ask some UNIX/Linux programmers about this, *curses is 
originally UNIX console manipulation library used long before Borland 
came with conio. You can also read manual entries for functions with 
'curs_' prefix at http://www.rt.com/man/indc.html

Happy coding,
next_ghost