brett@wjvax.UUCP (Brett Galloway) (12/28/85)
I saw the 4.2 curses buglist posted by Mike Laman at the end of October;
however, I ran into a problem not addressed therein. In a program which
uses curses I want to use a terminal capability which curses has not
read into its external capability list; namely I want the value of the
cs (scrolling region) and bl (audible bell) capability strings. I do
not want to have to read termcap AGAIN, since curses has already done so
via initscr(). My manual entry for curses (3X) includes a function
getcap(name) get terminal capbility name
This function has a type declaration in curses.h:
char *getcap();
However, it is NOT a symbol supplied by our curses library (either libcurses.a
or libtermcap.a); when I try to use it, the loader notes that "getcap" is
undefined.
Am I missing something obvious? It seems like one should be able to reference
the terminal entry that curses has read, without having to reread it. For
the time being, I will just write my own getcap() function which will
reread the termcap entry. Any help for a better solution would be
appreciated, however.
Thanks in advance.
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Brett Galloway
{pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix,vecpyr,certes,isi}!wjvax!brettjsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) (12/30/85)
In article <637@wjvax.wjvax.UUCP> brett@wjvax.UUCP (Brett Galloway) writes: > ... In a program which >uses curses I want to use a terminal capability which curses has not >read into its external capability list; namely I want the value of the >cs (scrolling region) and bl (audible bell) capability strings. Try using: boolean tgetflag(name); int tgetnum(name); char *tgetstr(name); -- Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) (01/02/86)
In article <151@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes: >In article <637@wjvax.wjvax.UUCP> brett@wjvax.UUCP (Brett Galloway) writes: >> ... In a program which >>uses curses I want to use a terminal capability which curses has not >>read into its external capability list; namely I want the value of the >>cs (scrolling region) and bl (audible bell) capability strings. >Try using: > boolean tgetflag(name); > int tgetnum(name); > char *tgetstr(name); But first read man 3 termcap. That last is tgetstr(name, &namebuf). It seems that all of these require a first call to tgetent(buf, term). Don't forget to check all return values for error, and don't call any of those three routines in a context in which tgetent()'s buf is no longer valid. -- Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}