RE: menu attribute granularity

[Jürgen Pfeifer]

SVR4 has libform and libmenu. Maybe compatibility with them is still desirable?

Juergen

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Thomas Dickey
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 12:19 AM
To: Bryan Christ
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: menu attribute granularity

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Bryan Christ wrote:

> Thomas,
>
> Any chance that set_item_fore() / item_fore() and set_item_back() / 
> item_back() overrides would be accepted if i wrote them?  After all, pdcurses 
> does not have a menu lib to break compatibility with.

perhaps - I'd make it yet-another-configure option since it would change
the size of the ITEM struct (new fields would be on the end of course).

I've been thinking about adding the NCURSES_OPAQUE ifdef to the other
libraries, which would be useful for flushing out applications that use
the struct members directly.  One drawback is that there aren't defined
functions to do _all_ of the operations needed for the values (I used
one in demo_menus, iirc).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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