I am using ncurses to develop a user interface. Perhaps I should be using something else, but I am reasonably comfortable with ncurses and don't really want to climb another learning curve at this time.
One problem I have dealt with for many years is ncurses' colors. I have simply been unable to affect the standard colors that are inherent to the code. Specifically, at least a couple of the standard colors look like they have been washed in mud!
COLOR_WHITE, when used as a background, is a light grey. Using a color_pair of COLOR_BLACK, COLOR_WHITE results in dark grey letters on a light grey background.
OTOH, COLOR_WHITE,COLOR_RED has nice bright white letters on a nice red background.
The standard COLOR_YELLOW looks like mustard, not a bright yellow like I would desire.
init_color doesn't seem to have any effect at all.
I have collected sample of what ncurses gives me in the attachment. To illustrate my dislike of the ncurses colors, I have embedded the samples in a background of the same colors as GIMP supplies. The black text labeling each piece was supplied via GIMP.
I am using Darwin on Mac OS X.I.I (new to both Unix and C++).
I downloaded the ncurses library from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnu-darwin/ncurses-5.2.tgz,
but I don't know what to do with it now. Stuffit has expanded the archive, but I still have the original .tgz as well (if that's... (1 Reply)
hello there,
i'm exploring the curses lib and i'm having some trouble with "defining a style". to clarify: i'm creating a menu driven app and i've been thinking what's the best way to use menus: make global vars (not my favourite), creating a function which designs the menu and returns the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Somebody has told me that NCurses can be used to test vi. But i was unable to figure out how. If anybody has done anything with NCurses please reply.
Also is there any othre way by which we can test vi automatically? (2 Replies)
hello all.
my first post here :)
i just want a little help.
i have a small app tha uses ncurses for gui, and for user input. I need this app to be executed on a sever side, and have access to it through telnet.
When i test it, i see that enter makes the hole gui move up, and some other... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to this programming with ncurses. I want to work out few examples on this ncurses. I jus want to know whether this ncurses works with Ubuntu OS? I found tat ncurses doesn come with AIX OS, may be it could be installed as a SupportPac or something, not sure about it.
Can u please... (4 Replies)
Help with ncurses Hi,
I need some help with ncurses.I'm supposed to write a program in C to display date and time and also to input the username and password using C.I chose ncurses for my task and here I am.
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include... (1 Reply)
I tried to complile a text-based messenger program but, while configuring, got a message saying that ncurses wasn't found. Though it appears to be there...
This is the program: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=110124&package_id=119574&release_id=373164
I get the error... (5 Replies)
i have read in one of links, there its documented
but i am using following code
int main ()
{
char ch;
initscr();
printw("Enter a char :");
ch=getch();
printw("You Entered '%c' ",ch);
getch();
endwin();
return 0;
}
the code does... (2 Replies)
Hey, Im using a shared memory segment to share a WINDOW structure among 2 processes. Basically I'm building a multi-player snake game in which multiple prrocesses access the window.
The 'parent' process initializes the shared memory segment and puts the window in it. I can access and perform... (1 Reply)
Hi guys I'm a newbie.Got a school project:need to convert Linux Hunt game,which is in K&R C to C99.I got some problems over Ncurses files:new library it's very different from the old one.There are some variables that with gcc are considered undefined 'cause they are no more used in the new Ncurses... (2 Replies)
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ncurses5-config
ncurses5-config(1) General Commands Manual ncurses5-config(1)NAME
ncurses5-config - helper script for ncurses libraries
SYNOPSIS
ncurses5-config [options]
DESCRIPTION
This is a shell script which simplifies configuring applications against a particular set of ncurses libraries.
OPTIONS --prefix
echos the package-prefix of ncurses
--exec-prefix
echos the executable-prefix of ncurses
--cflags
echos the C compiler flags needed to compile with ncurses
--libs echos the libraries needed to link with ncurses
--version
echos the release+patchdate version of ncurses
--abi-version
echos the ABI version of ncurses
--mouse-version
echos the mouse-interface version of ncurses
--bindir
echos the directory containing ncurses programs
--datadir
echos the directory containing ncurses data
--includedir
echos the directory containing ncurses header files
--libdir
echos the directory containing ncurses libraries
--mandir
echos the directory containing ncurses manpages
--terminfo
echos the $TERMINFO terminfo database path, e.g.,
/usr/share/terminfo
--terminfo-dirs
echos the $TERMINFO_DIRS directory list, e.g.,
/etc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo
--termpath
echos the $TERMPATH termcap list, if support for termcap is configured.
--help prints this message
SEE ALSO ncurses(3NCURSES)
This describes ncurses version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
ncurses5-config(1)