ncurses interface change (was: silly question)

[Ferenc Engard]

Hi all,

Did the ncurses lib's interface was changed from 1.6.8 to 1.8.x? In the
1.6.8 version, all Ncurses ("global") functions or constants were
accessible after mixing Ncurses, so I could write something like:

class XXX
include Ncurses
def yyy
# ...
doupdate
# ...
end
# ...
end

In the 1.8.x, it only works like this:

......
Ncurses.doupdate # instead of simply doupdate
......

This is what I wanted to explain in my previous thread, that I want to
access singleton methods from another module _without modifying the
Ncurses module definition_.

Can I do something to not to go through my program and fix it in several
dozen places?

I was on holiday, that's why I respond with a few weeks delay.

Thanks:
Ferenc

 

[Henry T. So Jr.]

This is apparently a change in version 0.8 of the ncurses binding.

I don't know how much this will help in terms of not changing your
program, but I got this code snippet from Tobias Peters (the author of
the ncurses binding for Ruby. You would insert this wherever you
include Ncurses:

# include constants
include Ncurses

# include methods as toplevel methods
alias pre_ncurses_method_missing method_missing
def method_missing(name, *args)
if Ncurses.respond_to?(name)
Ncurses.send(name, *args)
else
pre_ncurses_method_missing(name, *args)
end
end

Regards,
Henry

 

[Ferenc Engard]

This is apparently a change in version 0.8 of the ncurses binding.

I don't know how much this will help in terms of not changing your
program, but I got this code snippet from Tobias Peters (the author of
the ncurses binding for Ruby. You would insert this wherever you
include Ncurses:

# include constants
include Ncurses

# include methods as toplevel methods
alias pre_ncurses_method_missing method_missing
def method_missing(name, *args)
if Ncurses.respond_to?(name)
Ncurses.send(name, *args)
else
pre_ncurses_method_missing(name, *args)
end
end

This looks promising, thank you!

Ferenc