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Bill-Gray 8466f73e21 WinGUI display : I don't think the code that displays a preceding and trailing character is really needed to avoid stray pixel garbage. In fact, I can't see how that could possibly have ever worked. It caused some (not all) of the flickering problem described in issue #322 .		3 months ago
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CMakeLists.txt	Brought CMake's suite of demos up to date for DOS, DOSVGA, WinCon, WinGUI. Others to follow.	2 years ago
Makefile	The 'miscellaneous tests' from the 'tests' directory can now be made, for at least some platforms, with 'make tests'.	8 months ago
Makefile.bcc	WinCon and WinGUI Borland Turbo C makefiles now specify the lack of a 'stdint.h'. If you build with -DUTF8, you need not add -DWIDE (this has been the case with most makefiles for a long time, but we'd not caught up on the Borland ones until now).	5 months ago
Makefile.dmc	Digital Mars makefiles for DOS, DOSVGA, and WinGUI can now build the 'test' programs	5 months ago
Makefile.vc	Microsoft VC makefiles for WinGUI and WinCon updated to allow building of 'test' programs	6 months ago
Makefile.wcc	Removed the ability to make BBS-ready packages. 'Upstream' PDCurses did this 3.5 years ago; time we caught up.	3 years ago
README.md	Makefile cleanup	5 years ago
pdcclip.c	Put Windows clipboard file into the 'common' directory, to be shared by WinCon, WinGUI, and Windows builds of VT. Maybe Windows SDL1 builds, too, eventually (should be straightforward to do).	2 years ago
pdcdisp.c	WinGUI display : I don't think the code that displays a preceding and trailing character is really needed to avoid stray pixel garbage. In fact, I can't see how that could possibly have ever worked. It caused some (not all) of the flickering problem described in issue #322 .	3 months ago
pdcgetsc.c	Actually renamed 'win32a' directory to 'wingui'	6 years ago
pdckbd.c	WinGUI keyboard input could be unresponsive. Fix for issue #310 .	1 year ago
pdcscrn.c	'WinGUI' : reverting to window being resizable by default, as occurs with SDLn, X11, WinCon, and VT. This addresses issue #300 : rather than change documentation, let's have the behavior be the same between those platforms.	6 months ago
pdcsetsc.c	Revert "wingui: Move window procedure to separate thread to fix resize/move"	2 years ago
pdcutil.c	WinGUI beeping : Borland Turbo C lacks a '_beginthread()' function, so we can't beep in a separate thread. The program will therefore lock up while beeping is occurring... don't see a way around that.	5 months ago
pdcwin.h	WinGUI also didn't handle the PDC_FORCE_UTF=Y PDC_WIDE=N case. Think I've got it now...	2 years ago

README.md

PDCurses for WinGUI

This directory contains PDCurses source code files specific to Win32 graphics mode (Win95 and all subsequent forks of Windows).

Building

(Note that the following is almost identical to the instructions for the Win32 console flavor of PDCurses.)

Choose the appropriate makefile for your compiler:

  Makefile.bcc  - Borland C++ 4.0.2+
  Makefile.dmc  - Digital Mars
  Makefile.mng  - MinGW, Cygnus GNU Compiler
  Makefile.vc   - Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0+ or later & Intel(R) compiler
  Makefile.wcc  - Watcom 10.6+ or OpenWATCOM

Optionally, you can build in a different directory than the platform directory by setting PDCURSES_SRCDIR to point to the directory where you unpacked PDCurses, and changing to your target directory:
```
  set PDCURSES_SRCDIR=c:\pdcurses
```
This won't work with the LCC or Digital Mars makefiles, nor will the options described below.
Build it:
```
  make -f makefilename
```
(For Watcom, use "wmake" instead of "make"; for MSVC, "nmake".) You'll get the libraries (pdcurses.lib or .a, depending on your compiler; and panel.lib or .a), the demos (*.exe), and a lot of object files. Note that the panel library is just a copy of the main library, provided for convenience; both panel and curses functions are in the main library.

You can also give the optional parameter "WIDE=Y", to build the library with wide-character (Unicode) support:
```
  make -f Makefile.mng WIDE=Y
```
When built this way, the library is not compatible with Windows 9x, unless you also link with the Microsoft Layer for Unicode (not tested).

For the Intel(R) compiler, use Makefile.vc and add ICC=Y.

By default, Makefile.vc results in 64-bit code for both VC and Intel(R). Add IX86=Y to generate 32-bit code. (Other builds are 32-bit only.)

Another option, "UTF8=Y", makes PDCurses ignore the system locale, and treat all narrow-character strings as UTF-8. This option has no effect unless WIDE=Y is also set. This was originally provided to get around poor support for UTF-8 in the Win32 console:
```
  make -f Makefile.mng WIDE=Y UTF8=Y
```
WinGUI doesn't have the same limitations as the Win32 console flavor, but UTF-8 and non-UTF-8 versions are still available. If nothing else, this means that if you've built a Win32 console PDCurses DLL with any configuration, you can build a matching WinGUI DLL and swap between console or GUI PDCurses just by swapping DLLs.

You can also use the optional parameter "DLL=Y" with Visual C++, MinGW or Cygwin, to build the library as a DLL:
```
  nmake -f Makefile.vc WIDE=Y DLL=Y
```
When you build the library as a Windows DLL, you must always define PDC_DLL_BUILD when linking against it. (Or, if you only want to use the DLL, you could add this definition to your curses.h.)

If cross-compiling from Linux, add the parameter _w64=1 to get 64-bit code (default will be 32-bit).
```
  make -f Makefile.mng _w64=1 [WIDE=Y UTF8=Y DLL=Y]
```

Distribution Status

The files in this directory are released to the Public Domain.

Acknowledgements

Based heavily on the Win32 console flavor of PDCurses by Chris Szurgot <szurgot[at]itribe.net>, ported to Win32 GUI by Bill Gray <pluto[at]projectpluto.com>.