flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) (09/12/90)
I have a couple programs that presently run using curses in a UNIX environment. I need two things with these programs that I don't have right now: 1. I'd like to be able to get input from a mouse device, without sacrificing all portability, and without having to spend weeks writing my own mouse control. (If I can control the mouse in a 386 environment, even if it won't port to other platforms, I'll be quite satisfied for now.) 2. I'd like to be able to port them to DOS. I scanned the docs on AT&T's ETI, (Extended Terminal Interface) hoping to find mouse support- but if it is there, I missed it. (I assumed that the addition of something very basic like mouse support would have been included in a new version of curses for sure. If people are expected to migrate applications from DOS and Mac environments to UNIX, they're going to need control of a mouse.) Does anyone know of an existing curses type library to provide mouse support in a 386 UNIX environment at least? On the DOS front: I grabbed the PCURSES package from Simtel and was pretty disappointed again: no color support for one thing, and it appears to not have been updated since 1982, and to be described as a BETA version even then. Can anyone give me any pointers to packages, commercial or otherwise, that will allow me to build a curses application in a 386 DOS environment? (Again, I'd like to be able to control the mouse.) Any news about upcoming future versions of things that will do what I need would also be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Flint Pellett, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc. 1800 Woodfield Drive, Savoy, IL 61874 (217) 352-1165 uunet!gistdev!flint or flint@gistdev.gist.com -- Flint Pellett, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc. 1800 Woodfield Drive, Savoy, IL 61874 (217) 352-1165 uunet!gistdev!flint or flint@gistdev.gist.com