Re: Anyone succeeded to install the Curses module for Perl? - YES!

[James Bailie <jazzturk@home.com>]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:05:28AM +0000, falbu@amnesty.org wrote:

> I downloaded the stable perl sources (www.perl.org)
> I re-installed perl (At this moment I don't really know if this had any 
> influence 
> at all on the Curses installation) but I was after a long number of other 
> unsuccessful retries.

I coerced the Curses and Perl/Tk modules into compiling under 2.6 some time
ago, but I don't remember what tweaking, if any, I had to do with Curses. It
certainly wasn't necessary to reinstall Perl, though.

> happening, like the border of a window doesn't have the top line and you 
> cannot change the background colour of a window. Or at least in my case.
> If you can sort this out, tell me as it was the factor that made me stop 
> using 
> Curses module ;-((

I just tried the demo in an xterm with TERM set to xterm-color, and at the
console and it may look a little wonky, but I believe it's functioning
correctly.  Gdc works in the xterm with nice red digits, but color fails
on the console.  I haven't been using color in my own app yet, but I have
exercised most of the other functions, and the only thing I've had to change
is to add an explicit clear; and refresh; to clear stdscr before I create any
windows.


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