From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c68f22d9326eb7be X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-08!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Thomas Dickey Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: NT_Console in linux? Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:36:27 -0000 Organization: RadixNet Internet Services Message-ID: <12niu3b1tjpta28@corp.supernews.com> References: <1164889444.595086.184440@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87r6vlnl9x.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.8 (sun4u)) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7865 Date: 2006-12-08T14:36:27+00:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: ... > distribution, to do what you want. There exists an Ada binding to > ncurses somewhere; I think it is part of the ncurses source tarball > itself, but I'm not aware of any GNU/Linux distribution that carries > it as a precompiled package (they only carry the C interface). not according to the files listed for the Debian development package: http://packages.debian.org/stable/libdevel/libncurses5-dev > You can write your program with ncurses on GNU/Linux, then port it to > Windows using PDCurses[1]. You will also have to port the Ada > binding, but that seems easy. Some of the source is generated by shell scripts. > if you run Debian or a derivative thereof. Texttools provides a > higher-level interface, with buttons, menus etc. which will be easier > to program than ncurses, and will even allow you to support the mouse. > Because texttools runs on top of ncurses, you can also port your > program to Windows using PDCurses. PDCurses' mouse interface differs from ncurses (again, some work needed) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net