Re: Recommended way to distinguish between pads and windows?

[Nicholas Cole]

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Thomas Dickey<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Mark Dickinson wrote:
>
>>
>> Thomas Dickey-2 wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Mark Dickinson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> but with ncurses 5.7, the internals of WINDOW are hidden, so the
>>
>>> hmm - that's actually a configure option (not "always" hidden, but can
>>> be made so).  Which package/distribution is turning this on?
>>
>> Aha.  I forgot to include system information:  apologies.  This is
>> the 'official' Snow Leopard version of ncurses, from a clean install of
>> OS X 10.6 on a MacBook Pro.  The /usr/include/ncurses.h
>> file includes the lines:
>>
>> #ifndef NCURSES_OPAQUE
>> #define NCURSES_OPAQUE 1
>> #endif
>>
>> and now that you mention it, I see that the macports version of
>> ncurses has a '#define NCURSES_OPAQUE 0' here instead.  I wonder
>> why Apple decided to do this.
>
> I don't know - I get occasional feedback from people who are maintaining
> ports, but don't recall that any of those are Apple developers.
>

Odd.  I'm using Snow Leopard's python, curses and curses bindings, and
I haven't yet hit any problems.  What seems to have broken?

Best,

N