Posted by Mike Bowie on 06/24/05 18:59

Hello all,

I'm stumbling along with the ncurses implementation under 4.3.11 on
FreeBSD. I've had some success with windows and borders etc based on
some Googling(tm) and RTFM... but am having trouble getting
ncurses_new_panel to do anything worthy of note.

From what I understand, the following should draw a shadowed panel, but
it doesn't seem to. If anyone know what I'm missing here, I'd sure
appreciate some input!

<?php
# *** Initialize interface
$nc_session = ncurses_init();
# *** Setup colors and use console defaults
ncurses_start_color();
ncurses_use_default_colors();
# *** Hide the cursor, turn off character echo and turn on input buffering
ncurses_curs_set(0);
ncurses_noecho();
ncurses_cbreak();

# *** Fetch the window boundaries draw the main parent
$nc_window = ncurses_newwin(10, 10, 10, 10);
$nc_panel = ncurses_new_panel($nc_window);

# *** Call just about every redraw function we can find!
ncurses_update_panels();
ncurses_top_panel($nc_panel);
ncurses_doupdate();
ncurses_refresh();
exit;
?>

FYI, the last little block of updates / refreshes etc have been tested
in different combinations etc, without success... I may not have hit the
right one, but I've given it a pretty good try!

TIA,

Mike.

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