Re: A few of more CDK questions

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote:

> CDK Fans,
>
> I have a few more CDK questions.
>
> Is there a way to set a field to "auto tab" when using traverseCDKScreen, so 
> that when one fills a field the cursor jumps to the next field?

no (I believe that's yet another code change)

> Is there a way to have a field's fillerCharacter displayed with the 
> fieldAttribute attributes?  I've found the setCDKEntryBackgroundAttrib 
> function, but that also affects the field's label.  For example, on displays 
> that are capable of displaying underlined text, I might want the actual data 
> entry field to be underlined, but not the field's label.  I've achieved the 
> desired effect with something like:
>
>   name      = newCDKEntry (cdkscreen,
>                5, 6,
>                NULL,
>                "</B/24>Name:<!24>     ",
>                A_BOLD|A_UNDERLINE|COLOR_PAIR(56), '_', vMIXED,

The filler character is a character+video attributes, so you should
be able to just OR it with the color.

>                50, 0, 50,
>                FALSE, FALSE);
>
>   setCDKEntryBackgroundAttrib(name, COLOR_PAIR(56));
>
> I'm just wondering if there's a better way to achieve the same thing.
>
> Can CDK handle accented, or other unicode, characters.  I have 
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in my environment.  If I try to type an accented character, 
> such as ??, in a field it appears as two boxes instead of the intended 
> character.  I've tried with the program linked against libncurses and 
> libncursesw and get the same results either way.
>
>
>
>
> Kevin
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