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InhaltsangabeAcknowledgments.Introduction.Assumptions.Curses or NCurses Conventions.Compatibility Issues.Contacting the Author.Chapter 1 The Setup.NCurses Is a UNIX Thing.Run (Don’ t… Mehr…

InhaltsangabeAcknowledgments.Introduction.Assumptions.Curses or NCurses Conventions.Compatibility Issues.Contacting the Author.Chapter 1 The Setup.NCurses Is a UNIX Thing.Run (Don’ t Walk) to a Terminal Screen Near You.Know Something About the Shell.Some Shelly Stuff.Know Your History, Because You’ re Going to Repeat It.Make a Place for Your Stuff.Using an Editor to Create an NCurses Program.Picking an Editor.Creating Your First NCurses Program.Some Deviations.Know Thy Compiler.Linking NCurses or Curses What Does the gcc Command Do Re-editing Your Source Code.Where Is the Program Fixing Stuff (Again).Don’ t Panic When You Still Don’ t See Anything!Do You Think a.out Is a Goofy Name All Done!General Info.Handy Shell Commands to Know.Source Code Tidbits.Compiling Tips.Chapter 2 Basic I/O, the NCurses Way.The Skeleton.The initscr() Function.The initscr() Function’ s Exceptions.The endwin() Function.The refresh() Function.Writing Text.Tossing Up Text One Stupid Character at a Time.Pausing for a Side-trip.Blurping Text.The move() Function.The Old Formatted Text Trick.Reading Text.The Silly Typewriter Program.Consuming a String Whole.Swallowing Only So Much of a String.The Obligatory scanw() Program.Chapter 3 Formatting Text.Text Abuse with Text Attributes.More than Boring Black and White (but Not Much).Testing Some Attributes.Multiple-Attribute Mania.Can It Do Color Colors and Color Pairs.Eight or Sixteen Colors Spruce Up Some Text!A Color Thing Your Terminal Probably Cannot Do.Coloring a Window.Screen Background Color.More than Solid.Changing Color on the Fly.Noise, Too!Chapter 4 Around the Window.Measuring the Standard Screen.The Size of the Window Is Y by X.And Now: the Shortcut.Moving the Cursor Around.Watch Out! I’ ve Got You Cornered!Some Compacting.Center that Title!Some Fun with mvprintw().Whither the Cursor Chapter 5 More Text Manipulation.Inserting and Deleting Functions.Editing Shakespeare.Inserting Some Lines.Final Changes to Hamlet.Inserting One Character at a Time.A More Visual Example.Less of Hamlet.Goodbye, Chunk of Text!Out It Goes and in It Comes.Chapter 6 Clearing and Zapping.Commands to Erase Chunks of the Screen.The Obligatory Test Program.Clear the Screen!Clear or Erase Clrto means Clear To.Less Blah on the End of a Line.Less Blah to the End of the Screen.You Mean that’ s It for My NCurses Erasing Fun and Excitement .Chapter 7 Keyboard Madness!Reading from the Keyboard.Is a Character Waiting Testing Waiting Characters.How to Implement kbhit().Flushing Input.Silence, Please!Reading Special Keys.Keypad On!What’ s Where on the Keyboard.The Highlighted Menu Bar.Chapter 8 Windows, Windows Everywhere!Ye Olde Standard Screen.Commands that Require a Window Argument.The Pseudo Commands.The Other Prefix, mv.Making Windows.The Obligatory New Window Sample Program.Switching b More Pad-Viewing Stuff.Subpads.Making a subpad.Working with a Subpad.Some Optimization.Removing a Pad.Pad Miscellany.Another Pad Function.Forbidden Pad Functions.Forbidden Pad Stuff.Chapter 12 The Joy of Soft Labels.What Is a Soft Label Doing the Soft Label Thing.Stand by for Soft Labels.Gimme Some Soft Labels.Making the Index Line.Soft Labels Here and Gone.Hiding and Restoring the Labels.Changing a Label.Removing a Label.Hooking in the Function Keys.Chapter 13 Messing Mit der Mouse.Hello, Mouse.Can NCurses Deal with the Mouse Can Your Terminal Deal with the Mouse Reading the Mouse.The “ Reading the Mouse” Overview.Where Did You Click that Mouse On Your Own.What Clicked To Eek or Not to Eek Chapter 14 A Mixture of Stuff.Adios, Cursor.Line Drawing.Boxing Windows.Building Better Boxes.We Control the Horizontal and the Vertical.Between NCurses and Disk.Functions that Dump the Screen.Taking a Snapshot of the Screen.Examining the Dump File.Restoring the Screen.Functions that Dump a Window.Appendix A NCurses Library Reference.Appendix B The Alternative Character Set.Appendix C The chtype.Appendix D Keypad Character Codes.Index. Programmer`s Guide to NCurses: InhaltsangabeAcknowledgments.Introduction.Assumptions.Curses or NCurses Conventions.Compatibility Issues.Contacting the Author.Chapter 1 The Setup.NCurses Is a UNIX Thing.Run (Don’ t Walk) to a Terminal Screen Near You.Know Something About the Shell.Some Shelly Stuff.Know Your History, Because You’ re Going to Repeat It.Make a Place for Your Stuff.Using an Editor to Create an NCurses Program.Picking an Editor.Creating Your First NCurses Program.Some Deviations.Know Thy Compiler.Linking NCurses or Curses What Does the gcc Command Do Re-editing Your Source Code.Where Is the Program Fixing Stuff (Again).Don’ t Panic When You Still Don’ t See Anything!Do You Think a.out Is a Goofy Name All Done!General Info.Handy Shell Commands to Know.Source Code Tidbits.Compiling Tips.Chapter 2 Basic I/O, the NCurses Way.The Skeleton.The initscr() Function.The initscr() Function’ s Exceptions.The endwin() Function.The refresh() Function.Writing Text.Tossing Up Text One Stupid Character at a Time.Pausing for a Side-trip.Blurping Text.The move() Function.The Old Formatted Text Trick.Reading Text.The Silly Typewriter Program.Consuming a String Whole.Swallowing Only So Much of a String.The Obligatory scanw() Program.Chapter 3 Formatting Text.Text Abuse with Text Attributes.More than Boring Black and White (but Not Much).Testing Some Attributes.Multiple-Attribute Mania.Can It Do Color Colors and Color Pairs.Eight or Sixteen Colors Spruce Up Some Text!A Color Thing Your Terminal Probably Cannot Do.Coloring a Window.Screen Background Color.More than Solid.Changing Color on the Fly.Noise, Too!Chapter 4 Around the Window.Measuring the Standard Screen.The Size of the Window Is Y by X.And Now: the Shortcut.Moving the Cursor Around.Watch Out! I’ ve Got You Cornered!Some Compacting.Center that Title!Some Fun with mvprintw().Whither the Cursor Chapter 5 More Text Manipulation.Inserting and Deleting Functions.Editing Shakespeare.Inserting Some Lines.Final Changes to Hamlet.Inserting One Character at a Time.A More Visual Example.Less of Hamlet.Goodbye, Chunk of Text!Out It Goes and in It Comes.Chapter 6 Clearing and Zapping.Commands to Erase Chunks of the Screen.The Obligatory Test Program.Clear the Screen!Clear or Erase Clrto means Clear To.Less Blah on the End of a Line.Less Blah to the End of the Screen.You Mean that’ s It for My NCurses Erasing Fun and Excitement .Chapter 7 Keyboard Madness!Reading from the Keyboard.Is a Character Waiting Testing Waiting Characters.How to Implement kbhit().Flushing Input.Silence, Please!Reading Special Keys.Keypad On!What’ s Where on the Keyboard.The Highlighted Menu Bar.Chapter 8 Windows, Windows Everywhere!Ye Olde Standard Screen.Commands that Require a Window Argument.The Pseudo Commands.The Other Prefix, mv.Making Windows.The Obligatory New Window Sample Program.Switching b More Pad-Viewing Stuff.Subpads.Making a subpad.Working with a Subpad.Some Optimization.Removing a Pad.Pad Miscellany.Another Pad Function.Forbidden Pad Functions.Forbidden Pad Stuff.Chapter 12 The Joy of Soft Labels.What Is a Soft Label Doing the Soft Label Thing.Stand by for Soft Labels.Gimme Some Soft Labels.Making the Index Line.Soft Labels Here and Gone.Hiding and Restoring the Labels.Changing a Label.Removing a Label.Hooking in the Function Keys.Chapter 13 Messing Mit der Mouse.Hello, Mouse.Can NCurses Deal with the Mouse Can Your Terminal Deal with the Mouse Reading the Mouse.The “ Reading the Mouse” Overview.Where Did You Click that Mouse On Your Own.What Clicked To Eek or Not to Eek Chapter 14 A Mixture of Stuff.Adios, Cursor.Line Drawing.Boxing Windows.Building Better Boxes.We Control the Horizontal and the Vertical.Between NCurses and Disk.Functions that Dump the Screen.Taking a Snapshot of the Screen.Examining the Dump File.Restoring the Screen.Functions that Dump a Window.Appendix A NCurses Library Reference.Appendix B The Alternative Character Set.Appendix C The chtype.Appendix D Keypad Character Codes.Index. 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Programming the console in UNIX? Here's just what you need. First, you'll get a no-nonsense tutorial guide to the nCursesversion 5.5 library, taking you from basic to advanced functionsstep by step. Then you'll find an A-to-Z reference of more than 175nCurses functions, cross-referenced and illustrated with examples. With this all-purpose nCurses reference, you?ll: Learn techniques that can be. Programming the console in UNIX? Here's just what you need. First, you'll get a no-nonsense tutorial guide to the nCursesversion 5.5 library, taking you from basic to advanced functionsstep by step. Then you'll find an A-to-Z reference of more than 175nCurses functions, cross-referenced and illustrated with examples. With this all-purpose nCurses reference, you?ll: Learn techniques that can be used to program Linux®,FreeBSD®, Mac OS® X, or any other UNIX-based OS. Program, control, and manipulate text on the terminalscreen. Control interactive I/O, organize content into windows on thescreen, and USE color to highlight text and organizeinformation. USE a mouse to further refine input. Create nCurses programs using your choice of editors. Find hundreds of quick, easy-to-understand programmingexamples. Author Dan Gookin is known for making technology make sense. Buythis book and you'll see why. eBooks, Computing~~Computer Programming/Software Development, Programmer's Guide To Ncurses~~EBook~~9780470140130~~Dan Gookin, , Programmer's Guide To Ncurses, Dan Gookin, 9780470140130, Wiley, 05/14/2007, , , , Wiley<

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Programming the console in UNIX?Here´s just what you need.First, you´ll get a no-nonsense tutorial guide to the nCursesversion 5.5 library, taking you from basic to advanced functionsstep… Mehr…

Programming the console in UNIX?Here´s just what you need.First, you´ll get a no-nonsense tutorial guide to the nCursesversion 5.5 library, taking you from basic to advanced functionsstep by step. Then you´ll find an A-to-Z reference of more than 175nCurses functions, cross-referenced and illustrated with examples.With this all-purpose nCurses reference, you?ll:* Learn techniques that can be used to program Linux®,FreeBSD®, Mac OS® X, or any other UNIX-based OS.* Program, control, and manipulate text on the terminalscreen.* Control interactive I/O, organize content into windows on thescreen, and use color to highlight text and organizeinformation.* Use a mouse to further refine input.* Create nCurses programs using your choice of editors.* Find hundreds of quick, easy-to-understand programmingexamples.Author Dan Gookin is known for making technology make sense. Buythis book and you´ll see why. Programmer´s Guide to NCurses eBook eBooks>Fremdsprachige eBooks>Englische eBooks>Sach- & Fachthemen>Informatik, John Wiley & Sons Inc<

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Programming the console in UNIX? Here's just what you need.First, you'll get a no-nonsense tutorial guide to the nCurses version 5.5 library, taking you from basic to advanced functions step by step. Then you'll find an A-to-Z reference of more than 175 nCurses functions, cross-referenced and illustrated with examples. With this all-purpose nCurses reference, you?ll:Learn techniques that can be used to program Linux , FreeBSD , Mac OS X, or any other UNIX-based OS.Program, control, and manipulate text on the terminal screen.Control interactive I/O, organize content into windows on the screen, and use color to highlight text and organize information.Use a mouse to further refine input.Create nCurses programs using your choice of editors.Find hundreds of quick, easy-to-understand programming examples.Author Dan Gookin is known for making technology make sense. Buy this book and you'll see why.; PDF \ Wilbert O. Galitz; Computing > Operating systems > Linux, Wiley<

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Programming the console in UNIX? Here's just what you need.First, you'll get a no-nonsense tutorial guide to the nCurses version 5.5 library, taking you from basic to advanced functions s… Mehr…

Programming the console in UNIX? Here's just what you need.First, you'll get a no-nonsense tutorial guide to the nCurses version 5.5 library, taking you from basic to advanced functions step by step. Then you'll find an A-to-Z reference of more than 175 nCurses functions, cross-referenced and illustrated with examples. With this all-purpose nCurses reference, you?ll:Learn techniques that can be used to program Linux , FreeBSD , Mac OS X, or any other UNIX-based OS.Program, control, and manipulate text on the terminal screen.Control interactive I/O, organize content into windows on the screen, and use color to highlight text and organize information.Use a mouse to further refine input.Create nCurses programs using your choice of editors.Find hundreds of quick, easy-to-understand programming examples.Author Dan Gookin is known for making technology make sense. Buy this book and you'll see why.; EPUB; Computing > Operating systems > Linux, Wiley<