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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Help with Curses!
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 17:45:24 GMT
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- In article <4eubqe$ge7@stork.qut.edu.au>
- M.Hessling@qut.edu.au "hessling mark " writes:
-
- >Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
- >: In article <4emcp8$3i5@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>,
- >: Marcus Crafter <ccmrc@luxor.latrobe.edu.au> wrote:
- >: >
- >: >Hi There !
- >: >
- >: > I am working on writing a curses application at the moment,
- >: > but I can't seem to set the background of a curses based window
- >: > regardless of what I try. Here is the code that won't work as an
- >: > application itself, all I want it to do is clear the stdscr
- >: > window to a blue background.
- >
- >: This is a question for the ncurses mailing list.
- >: --
- >Oh dear, here we go again. This question is a valid question for
- >comp.lang.c.
-
- No, it isn't.
-
- > The question is equally valid if Marcus was asking the
- >same question and was using the supplied curses on Solaris or was
- >using PDCurses under DOS or OS/2.
-
- The question is probably relevant on any platform for which you can find an
- implementation of Curses. Curses is available on many platforms however that
- does *not* make it a part of the C language.
-
- > curses is a C library,
-
- Curses is a library with a C call interface but it is not a standard C
- library. It shares that status with POSIX.1, various other System APIs
- (DOS, Windows, Unix etc.) and 3rd party libraries (e.g. C-ISAM or graphics
- libraries). None of these things are defined by the C language hence have
- any relevance to comp.lang.c.
-
- >hence it
- >should be discussed here, just like questions about signal() or other
- >C funcion calls.
-
- signal() is defined by the C language. However the set of signals defined
- is rather limited so, for instance, comp.lang.c is not suitable for
- discussing SIGALRM. The 'C function calls' that are relevant are those
- that are well defined by C i.e. main(), the standard library functions
- and functions whose code is posted, or the bahaviour of which is described
- fully in the posting.
-
- I don't expect people to know whether their question is relevant to
- comp.lang.c in all cases (although having read the FAQ and the newsgroup
- they should generally have a good idea). It is blatent disregard for the
- newsgroup subject that is annoying.
-
- --
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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