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Bill-Gray 35f4184370 x11new : the (global) font structure can be static to 'pdcscrn.c'. Preparatory to some improvements in font handling for this platform.		2 weeks ago
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Makefile	x11new Makefile didn't build some demos	2 weeks ago
README.md	x11new : Clarified README.md about use of printf()s in PDCursesMod (and PDCurses) platforms with an underlying terminal	2 weeks ago
pdcclip.c	Initial commit of experimental new X11 port	1 month ago
pdcdisp.c	x11new and framebuffer/DRM : when blinking, you could get packets longer than MAX_PACKET_LEN. They need to be broken up... which is easy to do.	4 weeks ago
pdcgetsc.c	Initial commit of experimental new X11 port	1 month ago
pdckbd.c	x11new : Ctrl-C now breaks the program when not in raw-input mode, and FUNCTION_KEY_ABORT works as well if set (tested with 'brk_test' and 'ripoff', respectively)	3 weeks ago
pdcscrn.c	x11new : the (global) font structure can be static to 'pdcscrn.c'. Preparatory to some improvements in font handling for this platform.	2 weeks ago
pdcsetsc.c	'New' X11 port now supports setting/changing the title bar (PDC_set_title() function).	1 month ago
pdcutil.c	Initial commit of experimental new X11 port	1 month 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 weeks 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. It is, as yet, unclear if this will be a replacement for the original port. As noted in the 'to do' section, it's early days for this port (no known bugs, but many unimplemented and unfinished bits of functionality).

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 the target demos to build the sample programs, and/or tests for the test programs.
Currently, there is no make install.

Usage

When compiling your application, you need to include the \<curses.h\> that comes with PDCursesMod. You also need to link your code with libXCurses. You will need to link with 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?
Add make install.

Most of these shouldn't be all that tough to do.

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.