NCURSES Programming HOWTO
Pradeep Padala
v1.9, 2005-06-20
| Revision History | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revision 1.9 | 2005-06-20 | Revised by: ppadala |
| The license has been changed to the MIT-style license used by NCURSES. Note that the programs are also re-licensed under this. | ||
| Revision 1.8 | 2005-06-17 | Revised by: ppadala |
| Lots of updates. Added references and perl examples. Changes to examples. Many grammatical and stylistic changes to the content. Changes to NCURSES history. | ||
| Revision 1.7.1 | 2002-06-25 | Revised by: ppadala |
| Added a README file for building and instructions for building from source. | ||
| Revision 1.7 | 2002-06-25 | Revised by: ppadala |
| Added "Other formats" section and made a lot of fancy changes to the programs. Inlining of programs is gone. | ||
| Revision 1.6.1 | 2002-02-24 | Revised by: ppadala |
| Removed the old Changelog section, cleaned the makefiles | ||
| Revision 1.6 | 2002-02-16 | Revised by: ppadala |
| Corrected a lot of spelling mistakes, added ACS variables section | ||
| Revision 1.5 | 2002-01-05 | Revised by: ppadala |
| Changed structure to present proper TOC | ||
| Revision 1.3.1 | 2001-07-26 | Revised by: ppadala |
| Corrected maintainers paragraph, Corrected stable release number | ||
| Revision 1.3 | 2001-07-24 | Revised by: ppadala |
| Added copyright notices to main document (LDP license) and programs (GPL), Corrected printw_example. | ||
| Revision 1.2 | 2001-06-05 | Revised by: ppadala |
| Incorporated ravi's changes. Mainly to introduction, menu, form, justforfun sections | ||
| Revision 1.1 | 2001-05-22 | Revised by: ppadala |
| Added "a word about window" section, Added scanw_example. | ||
This document is intended to be an "All in One" guide for programming with ncurses and its sister libraries. We graduate from a simple "Hello World" program to more complex form manipulation. No prior experience in ncurses is assumed. Send comments to this address
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. What is NCURSES?
- 1.2. What we can do with NCURSES
- 1.3. Where to get it
- 1.4. Purpose/Scope of the document
- 1.5. About the Programs
- 1.6. Other Formats of the document
- 1.7. Credits
- 1.8. Wish List
- 1.9. Copyright
- 2. Hello World !!!
- 3. The Gory Details
- 4. Initialization
- 4.1. Initialization functions
- 4.2. raw() and cbreak()
- 4.3. echo() and noecho()
- 4.4. keypad()
- 4.5. halfdelay()
- 4.6. Miscellaneous Initialization functions
- 4.7. An Example
- 5. A Word about Windows
- 6. Output functions
- 7. Input functions
- 8. Attributes
- 8.1. The details
- 8.2. attron() vs attrset()
- 8.3. attr_get()
- 8.4. attr_ functions
- 8.5. wattr functions
- 8.6. chgat() functions
- 9. Windows
- 9.1. The basics
- 9.2. Let there be a Window !!!
- 9.3. Explanation
- 9.4. The other stuff in the example
- 9.5. Other Border functions
- 10. Colors
- 10.1. The basics
- 10.2. Changing Color Definitions
- 10.3. Color Content
- 11. Interfacing with the key board
- 11.1. The Basics
- 11.2. A Simple Key Usage example
- 12. Interfacing with the mouse
- 12.1. The Basics
- 12.2. Getting the events
- 12.3. Putting it all Together
- 12.4. Miscellaneous Functions
- 13. Screen Manipulation
- 13.1. getyx() functions
- 13.2. Screen Dumping
- 13.3. Window Dumping
- 14. Miscellaneous features
- 14.1. curs_set()
- 14.2. Temporarily Leaving Curses mode
- 14.3. ACS_ variables
- 15. Other libraries
- 16. Panel Library
- 17. Menus Library
- 17.1. The Basics
- 17.2. Compiling With the Menu Library
- 17.3. Menu Driver: The work horse of the menu system
- 17.4. Menu Windows
- 17.5. Scrolling Menus
- 17.6. Multi Columnar Menus
- 17.7. Multi Valued Menus
- 17.8. Menu Options
- 17.9. The useful User Pointer
- 18. Forms Library
- 18.1. The Basics
- 18.2. Compiling With the Forms Library
- 18.3. Playing with Fields
- 18.4. Form Windows
- 18.5. Field Validation
- 18.6. Form Driver: The work horse of the forms system
- 19. Tools and Widget Libraries
- 20. Just For Fun !!!
- 20.1. The Game of Life
- 20.2. Magic Square
- 20.3. Towers of Hanoi
- 20.4. Queens Puzzle
- 20.5. Shuffle
- 20.6. Typing Tutor
- 21. References
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| Introduction |