Which way is better in C ?

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005, Ben Duncan wrote:

>While true, ncurses has a lot going, it also leaves a lot to be desired.
>S-Lang has pretty much the same as ncurses, but has a lot of bases covered.

>Example, ncurses leaves one with figuring out function key and special key
>sequences return codes. S-lang simply returns a common "code" for whatever
>function/special key is pressed REGARDLESS of the terminal type.

What version of ncurses are you using?  Ncurses returns constant values for
function and special keys.  The ncurses keypad() function turns this on and
off.  There is a complete listing of these constants as implemented in the
python curses library see:

	http://docs.python.org/lib/node259.html

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Bill
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