On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 17:09:52 EDT, Ari Rahikkala wrote:

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Anonymous Void <byteasphyxia at gmail.com> wrote:

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But since I've never seen how the HSCurses functions really integrate together, or any tutorials/examples (besides hsFishEx), I fear toying with it is going to be annoying until I figure it out on my own, especially since I'm already doing a project for someone... So, I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to point me to (or write me) a basic example of how HSCurses works, maybe w/ some very simple example of interactivity (e.g. getch processing, screen refresh, ..) support. Also, maybe warn me of some of the common pitfalls and differences in hscurses vs ncurses in other languages.

UI.HSCurses.Curses follows ncurses quite closely so you can get pretty far reading the NCurses Programming HOWTO: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/

Also, http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-intro.html. And below is a hscurses version of the first example from that document. Cheers, Mike module Main where import Control.Exception (bracket_) import qualified UI.HSCurses.Curses as Curses import qualified UI.HSCurses.CursesHelper as CursesH start = do Curses.initScr Curses.keypad Curses.stdScr True Curses.nl False Curses.cBreak True Curses.echo True hasColors <- Curses.hasColors if hasColors then do Curses.startColor Curses.initPair (Curses.Pair 1) (CursesH.black) (CursesH.black) Curses.initPair (Curses.Pair 2) (CursesH.green) (CursesH.black) Curses.initPair (Curses.Pair 3) (CursesH.red) (CursesH.black) Curses.initPair (Curses.Pair 4) (CursesH.cyan) (CursesH.black) Curses.initPair (Curses.Pair 5) (CursesH.white) (CursesH.black) Curses.initPair (Curses.Pair 6) (CursesH.magenta) (CursesH.black) Curses.initPair (Curses.Pair 7) (CursesH.blue) (CursesH.black) Curses.initPair (Curses.Pair 8) (CursesH.yellow) (CursesH.black) return () else return () Curses.wclear Curses.stdScr return () loop num = do c <- Curses.getch Curses.attrSet Curses.attr0 (Curses.Pair (mod num 8)) Curses.refresh if Curses.decodeKey c == Curses.KeyChar 'q' then return() else loop (num + 1) end = do Curses.endWin return () main = do bracket_ start end (loop 0)