Re: pdcurses data retrieving

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, tristan taylor wrote:

> Hi,Im not sure if this is the right place for this but i downloaded pdcurses 
> 2.8 and it works fine but i've just spent the last 24hours trying to find out

well pdcurses has its own mailing list...

> how to get the program scan its window for certain characters,is there any 
> way of doing this?!
> ie i would fill the screen with '#',is it even possible to go 
> if(thescreen,7,7=='#'){dowhatever;}
>  can the program take the state of the currnet window so i ciould do this or 
> can it only accept input from the keyboard?!?!
> any help much much apprieciated,Hugh at... address@hidden

However, I see that it implements winch(), etc., which can be used to
read characters from a window's state.  That's an X/Open curses feature
which is provided by most implementations (including ncurses ;-).

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