4 PDCurses for X11 uses the System V IPC shared memory facility, along
5 with sockets, to share data between the curses program and the child
6 process created to manage the X stuff.
8 When compiling your application, you need to include the <curses.h> or
9 <xcurses.h> that comes with PDCurses. You also need to link your code
10 with libXCurses. You may need to link with the following libraries under
15 Xaw Xmu Xt X11 SM ICE Xext
17 You can run "xcurses-config --libs" to show the link parameters for your
18 system. If using dynamic linking, on some systems, "-lXCurses" suffices.
20 By calling Xinitscr() rather than initscr(), you can pass your program
21 name and resource overrides to PDCurses. The program name is used as the
22 title of the X window, and for defining X resources specific to your
26 Interaction with stdio
27 ----------------------
29 Be aware that curses programs that expect to have a normal tty
30 underneath them will be very disappointed! Output directed to stdout
31 will go to the xterm that invoked the PDCurses application, or to the
32 console if not invoked directly from an xterm. Similarly, stdin will
33 expect its input from the same place as stdout.
39 PDCurses for X11 recognizes the following resources:
76 lines: Specifies the number of lines the "screen" will have.
77 Directly equates to LINES.
78 There is no theoretical maximum.
79 The minimum value must be 2.
82 cols: Specifies the number of columns the "screen" will have.
83 Directly equates to COLS.
84 There is no theoretical maximum.
85 The minimum value must be 2.
88 normalFont: The name of a fixed width font.
91 italicFont: The name of a fixed width font to be used for
92 characters with A_ITALIC attributes. Must have the
93 same cell size as normalFont.
94 Default: 7x13 (obviously not an italic font)
96 pointer: The name of a valid pointer cursor.
99 pointerForeColor: The foreground color of the pointer.
102 pointerBackColor: The background color of the pointer.
105 textCursor: The alignment of the text cursor; horizontal or vertical.
108 colorBlack: The color of the COLOR_BLACK attribute.
111 colorRed: The color of the COLOR_RED attribute.
114 colorGreen: The color of the COLOR_GREEN attribute.
117 colorYellow: The color of the COLOR_YELLOW attribute.
120 colorBlue: The color of the COLOR_BLUE attribute.
123 colorMagenta: The color of the COLOR_MAGENTA attribute.
126 colorCyan: The color of the COLOR_CYAN attribute.
129 colorWhite: The color of the COLOR_WHITE attribute.
132 colorBoldBlack: COLOR_BLACK combined with A_BOLD.
135 colorBoldRed: COLOR_RED combined with A_BOLD.
138 colorBoldGreen: COLOR_GREEN combined with A_BOLD.
141 colorBoldYellow: COLOR_YELLOW combined with A_BOLD.
144 colorBoldBlue: COLOR_BLUE combined with A_BOLD.
147 colorBoldMagenta: COLOR_MAGENTA combined with A_BOLD.
150 colorBoldCyan: COLOR_CYAN combined with A_BOLD.
153 colorBoldWhite: COLOR_WHITE combined with A_BOLD.
156 bitmap: The name of a valid bitmap file of depth 1 (black and white)
157 used for the application's icon. The file is an X bitmap.
158 Default: a 32x32 or 64x64 pixmap depending on the
161 pixmap: The name of a valid pixmap file of any depth
162 supported by the window manager (color) for the
163 application's icon, The file is an X11 pixmap. This
164 resource is only available if the libXpm package has
165 been installed (most systems have this by default).
166 This resource overrides the "bitmap" resource.
167 Default: none, uses default bitmap above
169 translations: Translations enable the user to customize the action
170 that occurs when a key, combination of keys, or a
171 button is pressed. The translations are similar to
174 <Key>: XCursesKeyPress()
175 <KeyUp>: XCursesKeyPress()
176 <BtnDown>: XCursesButton()
177 <BtnUp>: XCursesButton()
178 <BtnMotion>: XCursesButton()
180 The most useful action for KeyPress translations is
181 string(). The argument to the string() action can be
182 either a string or a hex representation of a
183 character; e.g., string(0x1b) will send the ASCII
184 escape character to the application; string("[11~")
185 will send [ 1 1 ~ , as separate keystrokes.
187 shmmin: On most systems, there are two Unix kernel parameters
188 that determine the allowable size of a shared memory
189 segment. These parameters are usually something like
190 SHMMIN and SHMMAX. To use shared memory, a program
191 must allocate a segment of shared memory that is
192 between these two values. Usually these values are
193 like 1 for SHMMIN and some large number for SHMMAX.
194 Sometimes the Unix kernel is configured to have a
195 value of SHMMIN that is bigger than the size of one
196 of the shared memory segments that libXCurses uses.
197 On these systems an error message like:
199 Cannot allocate shared memory for SCREEN: Invalid argument
201 will result. To overcome this problem, this resource
202 should be set to the kernel value for SHMMIN. This
203 ensures that a shared memory segment will always be
204 bigger than the kernel value for SHMMIN (and
205 hopefully less than SHMMAX!)
209 borderColor: The color of the border around the screen.
212 borderWidth: The width in pixels of the border around the screen.
215 clickPeriod: The period (in milliseconds) between a button
216 press and a button release that determines if a click
217 of a button has occurred.
220 doubleClickPeriod: The period (in milliseconds) between two button
221 press events that determines if a double click
222 of a button has occurred.
225 composeKey: The name of the X key that defines the "compose key",
226 which is used to enter characters in the Latin-1
227 character set above 0xA0. (See "Compose Keys for
228 Latin-1" below.) This is used only when PDCurses is
229 built without XIM support. While in compose mode, the
230 text cursor will appear as a hollow rectangle.
237 All applications have a top-level class name of "XCurses". If Xinitscr()
238 is used, it sets an application's top-level widget name. (Otherwise the
239 name defaults to "PDCurses".)
241 Examples for app-defaults or .Xdefaults:
244 ! resources for XCurses class of programs
248 XCurses*normalFont: 9x13
249 XCurses*bitmap: /tmp/xcurses.xbm
250 XCurses*pointer: top_left_arrow
252 ! resources for testcurs - XCurses
254 testcurs.colorRed: orange
255 testcurs.colorBlack: midnightblue
257 *testcurs.Translations: #override \n \
258 <Key>F12: string(0x1b) string("[11~") \n
260 ! resources for THE - XCurses
262 ! resources with the * wildcard can be overridden by a parameter passed
269 the*pointerForeColor: white
270 the*pointerBackColor: black
272 ! resources with the . format can not be overridden by a parameter passed
275 the.bitmap: /home/mark/the/the64.xbm
276 the.pixmap: /home/mark/the/the64.xpm
278 Resources may also be passed as parameters to the Xinitscr() function.
279 Parameters are strings in the form of switches; e.g., to set the color
280 "red" to "indianred", and the number of lines to 30, the string passed
281 to Xinitscr would be: "-colorRed indianred -lines 30"
284 Compose Keys for Latin-1
285 ------------------------
287 When built without XIM support, PDCurses for X11 provides its own,
288 limited compose key system for Latin-1 characters. The available
289 combinations are listed here. For a given character, any of the
290 combinations shown in the last column may be used. To generate a
291 character, press the "compose" key followed by one of the pairs of
292 keystrokes. Where no key is evident, the spacebar is used. Thus, to
293 generate the NO-BREAK SPACE, press the "compose" key followed by two
294 hits of the spacebar.
296 With a typical modern X server, you can get many more compose key
297 combinations by using XIM instead. Configure PDCurses with --enable-xim
300 This document is encoded in UTF-8.
302 +----+-----+---+---------------------------------+---------------------------+
303 |Hex | Dec |Chr| Description ISO 10646-1:1993(E) | Compose key combinations |
304 +----+-----+---+---------------------------------+---------------------------+
305 | A0 | 160 | | NO-BREAK SPACE | |
306 | A1 | 161 | ¡ | INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK | ! !! |
307 | A2 | 162 | ¢ | CENT SIGN | c| |c c/ c$ C$ C| |
308 | A3 | 163 | £ | POUND SIGN | L- L$ L= l- l$ l= |-|
309 | A4 | 164 | ¤ | CURRENCY SIGN | xo ox XO g$ |
310 | A5 | 165 | ¥ | YEN SIGN | =y y= =Y Y= Y- y$ y-|
311 | A6 | 166 | ¦ | BROKEN BAR | | || vb VB |^ |
312 | A7 | 167 | § | SECTION SIGN | SO SS s! S! so |
313 | A8 | 168 | ¨ | DIAERESIS | " "" |
314 | A9 | 169 | © | COPYRIGHT SIGN | CO co OC |
315 | AA | 170 | ª | FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR | sa SA a_ A_ |
316 | AB | 171 | « | LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTES | << |
317 | AC | 172 | ¬ | NOT SIGN | -, no NO |
318 | AD | 173 | | SOFT HYPHEN | - -- |
319 | AE | 174 | ® | REGISTERED SIGN | RO ro OR |
320 | AF | 175 | ¯ | MACRON | -^ _^ __ |
321 | B0 | 176 | ° | DEGREE SIGN | o 0^ 0* de DE ^0 |
322 | B1 | 177 | ± | PLUS-MINUS SIGN | -+ +- |
323 | B2 | 178 | ² | SUPERSCRIPT TWO | 2 2^ s2 ^2 |
324 | B3 | 179 | ³ | SUPERSCRIPT THREE | 3 3^ s3 ^3 |
325 | B4 | 180 | ´ | ACUTE ACCENT | ' '' |
326 | B5 | 181 | µ | MICRO SIGN | u /u /U *m *M |
327 | B6 | 182 | ¶ | PILCROW SIGN | p! P! pg PG |
328 | B7 | 183 | · | MIDDLE DOT | . .^ .. |
329 | B8 | 184 | ¸ | CEDILLA | , ,, |
330 | B9 | 185 | ¹ | SUPERSCRIPT ONE | 1 1^ s1 ^1 |
331 | BA | 186 | º | MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR | o_ s0 S0 |
332 | BB | 187 | » | RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTES | >> |
333 | BC | 188 | ¼ | VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER | 14 |
334 | BD | 189 | ½ | VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF | 12 |
335 | BE | 190 | ¾ | VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS | 34 |
336 | BF | 191 | ¿ | INVERTED QUESTION MARK | ? ?? |
337 | C0 | 192 | À | CAPITAL A WITH GRAVE ACCENT | `A A` |
338 | C1 | 193 | Á | CAPITAL A WITH ACUTE ACCENT | 'A A' |
339 | C2 | 194 | Â | CAPITAL A WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT| ^A A^ A> |
340 | C3 | 195 | Ã | CAPITAL A WITH TILDE | ~A A~ A- |
341 | C4 | 196 | Ä | CAPITAL A WITH DIAERESIS | "A A" |
342 | C5 | 197 | Å | CAPITAL A WITH RING ABOVE | oA Ao A* OA *A |
343 | C6 | 198 | Æ | CAPITAL LIGATURE AE | AE |
344 | C7 | 199 | Ç | CAPITAL C WITH CEDILLA | ,C C, |
345 | C8 | 200 | È | CAPITAL E WITH GRAVE ACCENT | `E E` |
346 | C9 | 201 | É | CAPITAL E WITH ACUTE ACCENT | 'E E' |
347 | CA | 202 | Ê | CAPITAL E WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT| ^E E^ E> |
348 | CB | 203 | Ë | CAPITAL E WITH DIAERESIS | "E E" |
349 | CC | 204 | Ì | CAPITAL I WITH GRAVE ACCENT | `I I` |
350 | CD | 205 | Í | CAPITAL I WITH ACUTE ACCENT | 'I I' |
351 | CE | 206 | Î | CAPITAL I WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT| ^I I^ I> |
352 | CF | 207 | Ï | CAPITAL I WITH DIAERESIS | "I I" |
353 | D0 | 208 | Ð | CAPITAL ETH | D- |
354 | D1 | 209 | Ñ | CAPITAL N WITH TILDE | ~N N~ N- |
355 | D2 | 210 | Ò | CAPITAL O WITH GRAVE ACCENT | `O O` |
356 | D3 | 211 | Ó | CAPITAL O WITH ACUTE ACCENT | 'O O' |
357 | D4 | 212 | Ô | CAPITAL O WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT| ^O O^ O> |
358 | D5 | 213 | Õ | CAPITAL O WITH TILDE | ~O O~ O- |
359 | D6 | 214 | Ö | CAPITAL O WITH DIAERESIS | "O O" |
360 | D7 | 215 | × | MULTIPLICATION SIGN | x xx XX mu MU |
361 | D8 | 216 | Ø | CAPITAL O WITH STROKE | /O O/ |
362 | D9 | 217 | Ù | CAPITAL U WITH GRAVE ACCENT | `U U` |
363 | DA | 218 | Ú | CAPITAL U WITH ACUTE ACCENT | 'U U' |
364 | DB | 219 | Û | CAPITAL U WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT| ^U U^ U> |
365 | DC | 220 | Ü | CAPITAL U WITH DIAERESIS | "U U" |
366 | DD | 221 | Ý | CAPITAL Y WITH ACUTE ACCENT | 'Y Y' |
367 | DE | 222 | Þ | CAPITAL THORN | P TH |P |
368 | DF | 223 | ß | SMALL SHARP S | ss |
369 | E0 | 224 | à | SMALL A WITH GRAVE ACCENT | `a a` |
370 | E1 | 225 | á | SMALL A WITH ACUTE ACCENT | 'a a' |
371 | E2 | 226 | â | SMALL A WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT | ^a a^ a> |
372 | E3 | 227 | ã | SMALL A WITH TILDE | ~a a~ a- |
373 | E4 | 228 | ä | SMALL A WITH DIAERESIS | "a a" |
374 | E5 | 229 | å | SMALL A WITH RING ABOVE | oa ao Oa a* *a |
375 | E6 | 230 | æ | SMALL LIGATURE AE | ae |
376 | E7 | 231 | ç | SMALL C WITH CEDILLA | ,c c, |
377 | E8 | 232 | è | SMALL E WITH GRAVE ACCENT | `e e` |
378 | E9 | 233 | é | SMALL E WITH ACUTE ACCENT | 'e e' |
379 | EA | 234 | ê | SMALL E WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT | ^e e^ e> |
380 | EB | 235 | ë | SMALL E WITH DIAERESIS | "e e" |
381 | EC | 236 | ì | SMALL I WITH GRAVE ACCENT | `i i` |
382 | ED | 237 | í | SMALL I WITH ACUTE ACCENT | 'i i' |
383 | EE | 238 | î | SMALL I WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT | ^i i^ i> |
384 | EF | 239 | ï | SMALL I WITH DIAERESIS | "i i" |
385 | F0 | 240 | ð | SMALL ETH | d- |
386 | F1 | 241 | ñ | SMALL N WITH TILDE | ~n n~ n- |
387 | F2 | 242 | ò | SMALL O WITH GRAVE ACCENT | `o o` |
388 | F3 | 243 | ó | SMALL O WITH ACUTE ACCENT | 'o o' |
389 | F4 | 244 | ô | SMALL O WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT | ^o o^ o> |
390 | F5 | 245 | õ | SMALL O WITH TILDE | ~o o~ o- |
391 | F6 | 246 | ö | SMALL O WITH DIAERESIS | "o o" |
392 | F7 | 247 | ÷ | DIVISION SIGN | -: :- |
393 | F8 | 248 | ø | SMALL O WITH OBLIQUE BAR | /o o/ |
394 | F9 | 249 | ù | SMALL U WITH GRAVE ACCENT | `u u` |
395 | FA | 250 | ú | SMALL U WITH ACUTE ACCENT | 'u u' |
396 | FB | 251 | û | SMALL U WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT | ^u u^ u> |
397 | FC | 252 | ü | SMALL U WITH DIAERESIS | "u u" |
398 | FD | 253 | ý | SMALL Y WITH ACUTE ACCENT | 'y y' |
399 | FE | 254 | þ | SMALL THORN | p th |p |
400 | FF | 255 | ÿ | SMALL Y WITH DIAERESIS | "y y" |
401 +----+-----+---+---------------------------------+---------------------------+
407 XCursesProgramName is no longer used. To set the program name, you must
408 use Xinitscr(), or PDC_set_title() to set just the window title.
410 The XCursesExit() function is now called automatically via atexit().
411 (Multiple calls to it are OK, so you don't need to remove it if you've
412 already added it for previous versions of PDCurses.)
414 XCURSES is no longer defined automatically, but need not be defined,
415 unless you want the X11-specific prototypes. (Normal curses programs