Re: [open-cobol-list] Improvement to screen handling.

[David Essex]

OC uses curses functions, which are designed for POSIX terminals.

Both KDE or Gnome have a way to embed a terminal within a GUI-widget.


Some curses versions, such as PDcurses (win-console), map the curses
functions to naive API functions.

There is a PDcurses-win32 (64 ?) version which maps curses functions to
naive win32 GDI functions. Thus it is a real GUI application.
You can find it here [1].


A have a 1th-gen PDcurses-win32 working prototype for TC, some where.
Required some small changes to the run-time, if memory serves me.


MF may have a consistent look and feel, but it probably maps it's own
screen API to the native API.

IMHO, OC should probably have it's own small generic screen API which
would map to the native API (curses, KDE, GTK, win-Console, winGDI).

On the down side this project is a fair amount of work. Even if done for
the curses and win-GDI API. Also on win-32/64 both the GDI and GDI+ are
considered obsolete.



Vincent Coen wrote:

> Would be very handy to be able to use a GUI version of
> ncurses, i.e., one that will work with KDE or Gnome
> similar to MF.


1) PDCurses for real Windows
http://www.projectpluto.com/win32a.htm