Re: [Re: using 'select' with 'ncurses']

[TRAVIS LOYD]

>> stdin & a socket. If I try to use ncurses calls instead of select I
>> get a blocked socket.

>stdin is a buffered file "stream" and a socket is a raw file descriptor.

>Try to separate your application in a client part (the ncurses stuff)
>and a server part, doing all socket communication and have
>them talking to each other.

I'm not sure what you mean. I have a server which is running and
am trying to write a client which uses ncurses to test it out.

Because using ncurses functions to read from stdin causes network data to be
ignored till data is entered (allowing for a network timeout to occur) I
attempted to use the "select" function to continually watch both stdin & the
open socket to the server. But "select" doesn't appear to work with ncurses
for some reason?

Using "fileno(stdin)" along with "select" didn't appear to make a difference.

Any other ideas? Maybe someone knows why "select" & "ncurses" aren't mingling
well?


Travis