Re: ada, curses and windows

I wrote on comp.lang.ada:
Massimo M. wrote on comp.lang.ada:

i can't use windows in curses.
they don't work, i looked for examples, but i find only too
complicated examples. can you give me some easy examples in
using windows in ada?

i used

winInput:=New_Window(Line_Count(8),Column_Count(8),Line_Position(8),Column_Position(8));
box(winInput);
refresh(winInput);

but no windows appears...
if i use
box(standard_window), the box appears.

thanks in advance

The behaviour you see is correct.  Curses does not draw have window
borders; you have to draw the borders yourself, e.g. with a "box".

That's what I remember from the two programs I wrote with curses back
in 1992 or so.

BTW, have you considered TextTools[1,2]? It is a library on top of
curses that draws the window borders for you, offers a widget set
(buttons, scroll bars etc.) and even supports the mouse!

[1] http://www.pegasoft.ca/tt.html
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/libt/libtexttools.html

--
Ludovic Brenta.
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