Questions tagged [ncurses]
The ncurses package is a subroutine library for terminal-independent screen-painting and input-event handling.
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detection of mouse hovering using pdcurses
I am making an implemintation of conway's game of life using c and wanted to make the game highlight the cell the mouse in hovering over but i can't seem to be able to catch mouse movements even ...
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How to Implement Continuous State Switching with Spacebar in ncurses?
So i made this project called the Hassan Doodles which is just like my own version of Google Doodles but it didn't turn out how i wanted it as it failed to run the function
Here is the code
#include &...
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Ending Textbox when the user type ESC in ncurses with Python
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In a curses wrapper, I have a main stdscr. If I press : then I enter in a specific mode where I can type text inside a curses.textpad.Textbox.
In my following MWE it work fine until ...
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Chinese chars can not be displayed properly with ncursesw on MinGW(ucrt64) env
Recently I want to build a cross-platform tui program with C, using libncursesw. I tried to test multiple solutions as listed: (phenomenon talked below is the displaying result of string containing ...
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ncurses C home and end keys
I'm doing a simple menu with ncurses. It works for cygwin, but not in linux - home or end keys end the program immediately. I think handling of excape (27) has something to do with it because if I don'...
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ncurses cannot display wide characters with colour
attempting to print a unicode character. It does not work.
Here is my code:
#include <locale.h>
#include <ncurses.h>
int main() {
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
initscr()...
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Ncurses c++ printing arrow codes in terminal instead of reading them
I'm in kali linux trying to do a simple cpp program using ncurses but whenever I try to read an arrow key press, the escape code appears on screen. I cannot figure out what might be happening.
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Broken vertical cursor movement in custom text editor
I am trying to implement vertical cursor movement (up and down arrow keys) in my custom nano-like text editor, but I could not get it working properly and keep introducing new bugs. My text editor ...
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Busybox build fails with ncurses header not found in archlinux (spoiler: i already have ncurses package)
I am trying to build busybox from source, installed all the necessary dependencies, but build fails every time with ncurses header not found err.
OS: Arch Linux x86_64 (On docker: archlinux image)
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ncurses bug using init_color and curs_set
Trying to manipulate colors using ncurses, I bumped into a weird bug.
I want to set my own colors by changing color definitions using init_color. I also wanted to make the cursor invisible. That's ...
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Inconsistency with mvwprintw in ncurses
I have written a Snake clone in C++ using the ncurses library. I have encountered a bug where at random the apple will not be printed to the screen. Here is the code:
void Screen::print_apple(const ...
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I have a problem with terminal applications for Android [duplicate]
I wrote a code in C++ and with ncurses in an IDE for Android to test it on the terminal. The problem is when I use a different terminal.
I used c4droid to compile the code with the option to export ...
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Change Linux build from shared ncurses5w to static causes a symbol has different size in shared object message?
Because the older ncurses5w is becoming harder to find, I changed the build to use /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.a and added tinfo as a shared library to link with.
However if I move the binary ...
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Link problems in Rust undefined reference to `initscr'
I am working on a pseudo OS using Rust and c++, I am trying to detect the keys pressed using c++ with ncurses (I am aware that there is a similar crate for Rust) and in the build.rs I have the ...
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Ncurses - How to handle terminal resizes for an image that is being updated in an infinite loop
I have a program utilizing ncurses to draw a window with a clock timer. It is constantly being refreshed in an infinite loop. It works as intended, however when I resize the terminal window, the ...
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