Re: a 'Null' terminal

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Mike Aubury wrote:

> Is it possible to run ncurses with no terminal...

not really.  There was some discussion a while back (5 years ago) about
splitting off the device-driver code (would be a nice idea, but I've not
found time to work on it - perhaps after 5.4 if the wide-character code is
stable enough that it doesn't eat my time up).

> Strange I know - but I'm thinking of a graphical output based on the current
> curscr data..

yes - essentially replace ncurses/tty with some different code.  That,
and ncurses/tinfo are the parts that know about serial terminals.

> (One thing that I think would be difficult after that would be key
> handling...)

yes - wgetch() also would be replaced.

> Alternatively - has anyone any experience of move a curses app to gtk+ ?

not I...

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