RE: Any Chance ?

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Good point.

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Any Chance ?
> From: Craig Forbes <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, March 28, 2013 12:48 pm
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:41 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Fairly Simple in idea, do not know the detail ramifications of the
> > ncurses to GUI interaction.
> > From what I saw on the demo, the author of terminology .3 seems to just
> > Place it in
> > the middle (The graphics)
> >
> > My guess, (And I have not have had time to look at terminology .3
> > source) is the they
> > are sending the escape sequences along with uuencoded data stream;
> >
> > Given we know what a size of terminal is (row, column size). We can pin
> > to a upper left corner, with
> > a size row coordinate much like pads or windows. Let whoever re-vamped
> > xterm / Putty / console
> > figure out the "scaling".
> >
> > For example it could be ESC\G<stream type><start row #><Start Column
> > #><UUENCODED DATA>ESC\g (End of data stream code?)
> >
> > It also seems that the emphasis is going to be on making sure the
> > "client" *ie xterm, putty, uxterm, console,
> > (etc..etc..) can be updated to handle these "Extensions"
> >
> > ALSO keep in mind terminology .3 is NOT a GUI, but a terminal emulator
> > that understand some unigue extensions.
> 
> It seems to me that before we can even start the discussion about
> ncurses support for these things, the terminology people need to
> document all of these features and then define and document terminfo
> capabilities for all of them.
> 
> Once that has been argued, changed, re-argued, etc. the discussion of
> if and/or how ncurses supports them can start.