ncurses howto examples available

[Bauduin Raphael]

Hi,

I looked for some example code of ruby with ncurses and didn't find any.
To learn a bit about it, I followed the documentation available at
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/index.html and
transposed it some examples to ruby.

I put those files available at
http://www.raphinou.com/rubyncurses-examples.tgz .


I'm now looking for examples of the use of some more advanced features
of ncurses libraries like those listed at the end of the howto:

Panels: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/panels.html
Menus: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/menus.html
Forms: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/forms.html
CDK: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/tools.html#CDK

Does anyone know if those are usable with the ruby ncurses library? Any
example out there?

Thanks.

Raph

 

[Tobias Peters]

I put those files available at
http://www.raphinou.com/rubyncurses-examples.tgz .

Thanks for translating these. I'll have a look soon.

Panels: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/panels.html
Menus: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/menus.html
Forms: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/forms.html
CDK: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/tools.html#CDK

Does anyone know if those are usable with the ruby ncurses library? Any
example out there?

Panel and form are supported. See the end of the README file in
ncurses-ruby.

And maybe you have missed the "examples" directory of ncurses-ruby?

Tobias

 

[Bauduin Raphael]

Thanks for translating these. I'll have a look soon.



Panel and form are supported. See the end of the README file in
ncurses-ruby.

Ok, thanks. I missed that indeed, but it's quite normal as higher in the
document there is:

"If you don't know how to use ncurses from C, then stop reading here,
and read an introduction to ncurses."

and I followed this instruction

Having read it now, I'm looking for the form2.rb example it mentions.
(It doesn't seem to be included in the Debian package). Are there good
examples available somewhere?

And maybe you have missed the "examples" directory of ncurses-ruby?

I saw these and they helped me starting, but they are limited in scope.


Thanks.

Raph

 

[Tobias Peters]

Ok, thanks. I missed that indeed, but it's quite normal as higher in the
document there is:

"If you don't know how to use ncurses from C, then stop reading here,
and read an introduction to ncurses."

and I followed this instruction

Having read it now, I'm looking for the form2.rb example it mentions.
(It doesn't seem to be included in the Debian package).

I see. Sorry about that. At one point, I became tired answering basic
ncurses questions that were unrelated to the ruby binding. I should add
that the reader should continue with the readme after acquiring basic
ncurses knowledge.

Are there good
examples available somewhere?

I think "raggle" uses ncurses. "aeditor" did so once, but I do not know
if it does still.

Tobias

 

[Simon Strandgaard]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 23:55:11 +0900, Tobias Peters

"aeditor" did so once, but I do not know if it does still.

AEditor 0.x uses your ncurses lib.
AEditor 1.x uses fxruby.

AEditor 2.x uses my own wrapper for ncursesw, so I can deal with unicode.
See shot: http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/aeditor_shots/057.png


There exists 2 other editors that uses curses/ncurses:
ruvi. http://ruvi.rubyforge.org/
diakonos. http://purepistos.net/diakonos/

 

[Tobias Peters]

http://www.raphinou.com/rubyncurses-examples.tgz .
I've looked at your examples and have the following suggestions:

example1.rb: mvaddstr would work (there was a typo)
example2.rb: use different arrays for row and col: row=[];col=[]

Having read it now, I'm looking for the form2.rb example it mentions.
(It doesn't seem to be included in the Debian package).

Looks like a packaging oversight. You can get them from the source
package in the meantime, or via ViewCVS:
http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ncurses-ruby/ncurses-ruby/examples/

Tobias