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History

Bill-Gray 436f1c3e8e Fix for clang-18 warning/error : 'a function declaration without a prototype is deprecated in all versions of C [-Wstrict-prototypes]'		5 days ago
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Makefile	x11new/Makefile had ~20 lines devoted to DOS, MinGW, and other things that an X11 platform need not think about. Pointed out by Simon Sobisch.	2 weeks ago
README.md	Updated x11new/README.md to mention ability to change font size	2 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.)	2 months ago
pdcgetsc.c	Initial commit of experimental new X11 port	3 months ago
pdckbd.c	Fix for clang-18 warning/error : 'a function declaration without a prototype is deprecated in all versions of C [-Wstrict-prototypes]'	5 days ago
pdcscrn.c	x11new : hitting Ctrl-Minus or Ctrl-Plus decrements or increments the font size. If the window is maximized, this changes the number of lines/columns (and you need to handle the resize event). Otherwise, the window gets smaller/bigger and the number of lines/columns is retained.	2 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	1 month 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.	3 months ago

README.md

PDCursesMod for X11 (new)

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

Hitting Ctrl-Plus or Ctrl-Minus will increase or decrease the font size, respectively.

To do

Combining and fullwidth characters
How to do SMB (Unicode > 0xffff)?
Bold & italic text

The last 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.