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History

Bill-Gray b08805c7dd Updated x11new README.md to reflect changes and to indicate that this port is the likely path forward		3 weeks ago
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Makefile	Makefiles for x11new and framebuffer/DRM port were based on the VT makefile. The references to Microsoft Windows NT make no sense here.	3 weeks ago
README.md	Updated x11new README.md to reflect changes and to indicate that this port is the likely path forward	3 weeks ago
pdcclip.c	Initial commit of experimental new X11 port	3 months ago
pdcdisp.c	PDC_blink_state should be (and now is) part of the SCREEN structure. (Many externals should be part of SCREEN. This is a start.)	1 month ago
pdcgetsc.c	Initial commit of experimental new X11 port	3 months ago
pdckbd.c	Fixed various C90 compliance issues : variables declared after code instead of at the top of a block, true/false used instead of TRUE/FALSE, C++-style comments	3 weeks ago
pdcscrn.c	Fixed various C90 compliance issues : variables declared after code instead of at the top of a block, true/false used instead of TRUE/FALSE, C++-style comments	3 weeks ago
pdcsetsc.c	Fixed various C90 compliance issues : variables declared after code instead of at the top of a block, true/false used instead of TRUE/FALSE, C++-style comments	3 weeks ago
pdcutil.c	Initial commit of experimental new X11 port	3 months ago
pdcx11.h	x11new : the (global) font structure can be static to 'pdcscrn.c'. Preparatory to some improvements in font handling for this platform.	2 months ago

README.md

PDCursesMod for X11 (new, experimental)

This port of PDCursesMod for X11 has been written from scratch, with (thus far) only the key remapping array taken from pdckbd.c of the "original" X11 port. The only shortcoming of this version relative to the original port is the lack of bold and italic fonts. Once that's fixed, the original X11 port will be deprecated in favor of this one.

Building

Run make. Add UTF8=Y to force the wide-character version. Add DEBUG=Y for the debug version. Add NO_LEAKS=Y to avoid Xlib's tendency to leak lots of memory (this does limit you to a US keyboard; see pdckbd.c.) Add DLL=Y to generate a shared library. Add the target demos to build the sample programs, and/or tests for the test programs.
If you've built a shared library via UTF8=Y, you can then run make install to install it. Most likely, you'll have to run as root or use sudo.

Usage

When compiling your application, you need to include the <curses.h> that comes with PDCursesMod. You also need to link your code with this library, of course, and to the following libraries:

-lX11 -lpthread

To do

Combining and fullwidth characters
How to do SMB (Unicode > 0xffff)?
Bold & italic text
Respond to Ctrl-plus and Ctrl-minus with font size changes?

The last two should be relatively straightforward. The first two appear to be more challenging than I'd have expected.

Interaction with stdio

Be aware that curses programs that expect to have a normal tty underneath them will be very disappointed! Output directed to stdout will go to the xterm that invoked the PDCursesMod application, or to the console if not invoked directly from an xterm. Similarly, stdin will expect its input from the same place as stdout.

Note that this isn't entirely a bad thing. You can use printf()s for debugging, secure in the knowledge that they'll go to the terminal and won't mess up the Curses screen. You can do this for the X11 ports and GL, SDL1/2, WinGUI, and the OS/2 GUI ports. You can't with the other ports (they all do have terminals under them) or when building with ncurses.

Distribution Status

The files in this directory are released to the public domain.