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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 21 May 1995 14:09:47 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 21 May 1995 02:13:00 -0400
From: rdavis4@umbc.edu (R. D. Davis)
Message-Id: <3pmllc$6eh@umbc8.umbc.edu>
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Icon screen handling routines question
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
After picking up Icon 9.0 and getting it compiled... finally... it
took a surprisingly long time to compile on a Sun 3/60 with 12 MB of
memory!!! However, the compile was successful and everything seems to
work; I think that I may like using Icon! :-)
There's just one problem: screen handling. I noticed the routines
such as iscreen, but they seem geared mainly toward terminals that can
upport ANSI, such as VT-xxx terminals. The sample programs provided
that use these screen handling functions don't work too well on some
terminals such as my somewhat older HP-2382A terminal. :-( Worse yet,
they mangle things and nothing displays properly after the programs
using the screen manipulation (mangling?) code have been run. Without
a good set of routines that does the type of things that curses does,
which supports all the terminals that work with most UNIX systems and
curses, Icon looses a great deal of appeal, unfortunately.
On to other things...
The graphics/X-windows part of this package seems very nice, and I'm
anxious to expore it some more! (unfortunately, it's no replacement
for the non-graphics terminal support that I need, however). What I
like best about what I've seen of the graphics so far is that it
doesn't remind me of Motif and that annoying Motif style guide. :-)
One more question: has anyone ever ported a version of Icon to PERQ
graphics workstations running POS or Accent, or even PNX? Are there
any plans to do so? Icon on PERQs would be great!
--
R. D. Davis * Eccentrics have more fun! :-) *
rdavis4@umbc.edu, rdd@mystica.uucp >
Home telephone: 1-410-744-7964 > Vintage computer fanatic and
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