Re: Ncurses and Ada

[mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com>]

On Friday, March 9, 2012 5:59:46 PM UTC+1, Eilie wrote:
> On 2012-03-09, mockturtle <...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday, March 9, 2012 3:40:00 PM UTC+1, Eilie wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>  I started learn ada recently and mess with ncurses.
> >>  I know this is somewhat unrelated but maybe someone can help me here.
> >>  I build ncurses with Ada support,
> >>  Ada examples(rain and so on) has been built fine.
> >>  But i don't know how should i build mine programs that uses ncurses.
> >>  For example: I copy rain.adb from examples dir to some other dir,
> >>  How can i build it? What options of gnatmake should i pick to build it?
> >
> > Is ncurses related with curses? (I guess so) Ah, memories... I used curses _many_ years ago, when I was a student and I thought that the name was quite appropriate...
> >:-/  Especially when the usual segmentation fault left your VT100 monitor [yes, I am that old!] in an unusable state, forcing you to logout and login  again...
> >
> > Seriously, since I never used ncurses, I cannot be of much help, but I can give you some general advice.  Does the example dir has some project file (*.gpr)?  If it has, I would start from that, taking an existing project file and modifying to my needs.
> >
> > Hope this "bootstraps" you.
> >
> > Riccardo
> 
> I'm tryng to make some simple CLI game.
> I think that study GtkAda for this purpose would be overhead.
> But if there is some more stable/usable lib for that purpose(CLI tools/games)
> i will be happy to hear about it.

Just to avoid any misunderstanding (with written exchange it may happens): I was not criticizing your choice, it just made me wonder (and smile) since it recalled to my memory my experience with "curses."  
(BTW, I am smiling while I write this ;-)

Riccardo