Re: [Wordgrinder-users] Feature requests

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

I hadn't met Termux! That's very cool. It runs beautifully on my
Chromebook, too, using the Android emulation layer. (I actually do a lot of
my WordGrinder development on the Chromebook inside a Crouton chroot.)

Termux's terminal emulator knows how to draw the line graphics used by the
menus (proof: looking at src/lua/ui.lua with less), so the most likely
cause for menu boxes not showing up is that ncurses may not be built with
wide character support. Try taking a look at the Unicode test page in the
README.wg and seeing if it works.

Centered text I'm less confident about. If the rest of ncurses works, then
that should work too. At the risk of stating the obvious... is widescreen
mode turned on in the settings?

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 at 21:40 Bob Newell <bob...@bo...> wrote:

> Aloha,
>
> I tried building Wordgrinder 7 for Android 7 under the Termux
> environment and got it to work with only a little effort.
>
> Everything is not perfect, as there are a couple of display
> issues with ncurses, none of them showstoppers. (Text doesn't
> center on the screen, and bounding boxes for menus are
> incomplete.) There is also a lua issue with temporary file
> names.
>
> It's fully workable now and clearly is the best writing tool
> there is for Android, if you have a relatively recent Android
> and don't mind installing Termux plus a few Termux packages.
>
> I don't want to post code or a binary until I get the
> remaining issues in hand, but I'm quite encouraged.
>
> Regards to all,
>
> --
> Bob Newell
> Honolulu, Hawai`i
> * Via Gnus/BBDB/Org/Emacs/Linux *
>
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