#21174 [Bgs]: ncurses oddities

ID: 21174 User updated by: joeldegan@yahoo.com Reported By: joeldegan@yahoo.com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment: ahh, I see there is a reason (thus my question). I could not found that in the ncurses docs it only seemed to appear in PHP/ncurses related docs and so it seemed very odd. Having checked over the man pages I see. Thanks for responding and clearing that up. -Joel oh, and merry christmas :) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-25 03:42:35] georg@php.net Please check the man pages for standout and standend. The documentation isn't finsihed still, but feel free to contribute. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-24 15:49:20] joeldegan@yahoo.com I actually posted this to the comments for ncurses_attron and it was removed as it is more of a question about why certain functions are being put into ncurses-PHP and they asked that I post it here instead. > The following are defined constants.. > > NCURSES_A_ALTCHARSET Alternate character set > NCURSES_A_BLINK Blinking > NCURSES_A_BOLD Extra bright or bold > NCURSES_A_DIM Half bright > NCURSES_A_INVIS Invisible > NCURSES_A_PROTECT Protected > NCURSES_A_REVERSE Reverse video > NCURSES_A_STANDOUT Best highlighting mode of the > terminal > NCURSES_A_UNDERLINE Underlining > > so as the following: > > ncurses_attron(NCURSES_A_BOLD); // turn on > ncurses_addstr("Press ESC to exit"); // out put > ncurses_hline(NCURSES_ACS_DIAMOND,5);// other fun > stuff > ncurses_attroff(NCURSES_A_BOLD); // turn off > > Then I start looking around and see that for some > reason they are creating functions to do this? > i.e. > ncurses_standout(); // in place of > NCURSES_A_STANDOUT ??? > and > ncurses_standend(); > > umm.. guys, this makes no sense to create functions > for each of the attr's > Guess we will see once it is final. > -- My point was that creating functions for doing this seems very odd.. I am not complaining about this as I am sure there is a reason for doing it, but it really does seem odd and I was curious if there was going to be ncurses_boldout() etc.. I have been going through a lot of this as I am writing and advanced tutorial for ncurses with PHP and so most of my information for working with these functions is actually coming from man pages for ncurses and other ncurses programming pages I have found (mostly in C and Perl). I am really hoping to inspire some interest in php-ncurses programming as it really makes PHP CLI application programs so much nicer and might help people in similar positions to myself who are trying to get away from Perl and C in favor or writing these interfaces in PHP. Also, as you "well know" the documentation for ncurses_wborder and many of the other ncurses_w.. function docs are missing and also over 100 defined constants. (DIAMOND, BLOCK WA_* etc). Anyway, I would be willing to help with some of the documentation here if it is needed. Thanks -Joel De Gan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=21174&edit=1