From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: ada, curses and windows
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 13:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2009-08-01T13:34:51-07:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: h523sa$8ak$1@news.newsland.it
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.
--
Ludovic Brenta.
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2009-08-01 19:08 ada, curses and windows Massimo M.
2009-08-01 20:34 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2009-08-01 23:08 ` Ludovic Brenta
2009-08-02 7:56 ` Massimo M.
2009-08-02 9:16 ` Massimo M.
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