[Freetalk-dev] Re: curses UI

[Anand Avati]

Yanis,
We would like to see your initial work. Please do mail it to the mailing
list. You should NOT use readline and ncurses together (you cant).
getch() is the way to go with ncurses. We would like to continue the
discussion about what goes in what language (C and guile) before
something solid happens. We need the code to be well abstracted as API
and control, and fit into the existing freetalk codebase correctly.

Please do forward your attempted work to the mailing list and we can
proceed from there. Other developers too will be happy to give back
their feedback and shape things up.

Happy hacking,
avati

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:12:59PM +0200, yanis wrote:
> Hi,
> I am <address@hidden> (my mail provider is offline the last 3 days - 
> that's why I dont post at the mailing list). I have started to develop 
> the curses UI that will implement the "text UI" mode as I have told you 
> before. I want to know if I can/should use readline lib for reading the 
> user's input or I can can use curses' getch() function. I don't know a 
> lot about readline so I am not sure If it's possible to cooperate with 
> curses. I can send you some C test source I have written. Let me know 
> what you think about the whole idea of curses mode in freetalk and and 
> the issues I was refered in particular.
> regards,
> yanis.