Re: How does one use curses.h? it works better now

[Lionel B]

On Mon, 19 May 2008 17:30:45 -0700, David Chmelik wrote:

> Lionel B wrote:
> 
>> Yes; these error messages are not from the compile, but from the link
>> phase, and probably mean that you have not linked in the library
>> containing the actual code for the functions referenced. So to link
>> code for ncurses, you will probably have to specify -lncurses somewhere
>> on your gcc invocation (this is documented in `man ncurses').
> 
> Thanks; it compiles now.  However, it does not do exactly what I try to
> make it do.  I am trying to make a roguelike game just to practice
> various algorithms, and the part I was working on is moving the '@'
> around the screen with the arrow keys and move().  Right now it just
> prints control sequences when I use the arrow keys.  I already tried
> this part of the code in DOS Watcom C/C++ and it worked... maybe it is
> the wrong screen mode.  Any suggestions on where to read about screen
> modes and keyboard I/O for Posix systems?

'Fraid I'm not very knowledgeable in that area. A good read of `man 
ncurses' is probably a good idea, maybe also `man tset' and `man 
terminfo'. I see that there is also a debug version of ncurses (which may 
or may not be available on your system) which may shed some light on your 
problem. Apparently you just link with -lncurses_g rather than -lncurses 
and it writes actions to a log file called `trace'.

-- 
Lionel B