Re: ncurses woes...

Grimes, Dean wrote: > Anybody out there doing any work with ncurses? I've been playing around > with > ncurses trying to figure it all out. I have had pretty good luck but I am > finding a few issues and would like to know if other users are having the > same problems. One of the problems I'm having is with function keys and > arrow keys. I can trap on them OK but I haven't been able to keep the > system > from displaying their escape sequences on the screen. When this happens it > corrupts the screen and skews the display. I've got machines that do that even with vi, because I forced them to upgrade that one thingie (readline?) you need for the arrow keys to work for command history in MySQL/PostgreSQL, which means I had for force a glibc upgrade. Grrrr. I think I'm lucky the damn thing works at all, from what I understand (or don't) of glibc. Anyway, I forget what it's called, but you might have a mis-match in the glibc and that readline software versions... > Also, I'm having some weirdness > with mvwaddstr, I logged a bug on bugs.php.net #31876. I have test > programs > for anyone interested in taking a stab at some of the problems I've > encountered. I've read all the documentation I could get my hands....that > took about 10 minutes! If ncurses is continues to give you trouble, you may want to consider PHP GTK -- There is possibly a larger community of users working on that. Or are you the guy needing to duplicate the green-on-black terminal stuff?... I was gonna say GTK wouldn't do so hot at that, but, actually, it MIGHT be not that hard, now that I think about it. http://gtk.php.net/ PS If anybody knows how I can fix my glibc and readline issue on RedHat 9.x I'd surely welcome some input. I use control-L a lot, but it's not much fun. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm