OpenEuphoria

Re: Blocking NCurses

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jul 26, 2001
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jbrown writes:
> Will 2.3 have a way to block ncurses? Such as without ncurses?

If I have time, I may look into having an option to 
build Euphoria for Linux without ncurses.
ncurses is the least standard of the libraries 
that Euphoria depends on, so it would
help Euphoria's portability if it were optional.
A lot of simple apps and X-Windows apps
don't need 2-D text support.

C.K. Lester writes:
> What is nCurses?

It's a library on Linux (and most other Unixes) that
lets you write text at any line and column on the screen,
and also in color. DOS people just take this for granted,
but in the Unix world there are hundreds of different
types of terminals, so supporting 2-D text with color 
portably is a major undertaking.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com