Does anyone know if there are any ncurses bindings around for D? I'm looking to develop a roguelike using D, and it would save me a lot of time if someone has already done all the nasty work of converting ncurses.h to a D module -- particularly as there are so many macro functions in there that I have no idea how to tackle parts of it. For example:

extern NCURSES_EXPORT_VAR(chtype) acs_map[];

#define NCURSES_ACS(c)	(acs_map[(unsigned char)c])

/* VT100 symbols begin here */
#define ACS_ULCORNER	NCURSES_ACS('l') /* upper left corner */
#define ACS_LLCORNER	NCURSES_ACS('m') /* lower left corner */
..
etc.

Does D support exported variables like this?
Would the declaration become something like this?
export chtype *acs_map;

To use ncurses (and all it's macros) you would have to convert the macros to functions. As it is, I'm doing a port of PDCurses to D. Currently some of the functionality works on Windows. If you want to use curses for something useful (e.g. rogue), you'll probably be better off using ncurses (or PDCurses as it has a native Windows implementation) yet. I think it'll be a while until dcurses is ready. It's mostly a learning experience for me.

Lars Ivar Igesund

Tabris wrote:
> Does anyone know if there are any ncurses bindings around for D? I'm looking to
> develop a roguelike using D, and it would save me a lot of time if someone has
> already done all the nasty work of converting ncurses.h to a D module --
> particularly as there are so many macro functions in there that I have no idea
> how to tackle parts of it. For example:
> 
> extern NCURSES_EXPORT_VAR(chtype) acs_map[];
> 
> #define NCURSES_ACS(c)	(acs_map[(unsigned char)c])
> 
> /* VT100 symbols begin here */
> #define ACS_ULCORNER	NCURSES_ACS('l') /* upper left corner */
> #define ACS_LLCORNER	NCURSES_ACS('m') /* lower left corner */
> ..
> etc.
> 
> Does D support exported variables like this?
> Would the declaration become something like this?
> export chtype *acs_map;
> 
> 

In article <ckt849$2sfu$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Lars Ivar Igesund says...
>
>To use ncurses (and all it's macros) you would have to convert the macros to functions. As it is, I'm doing a port of PDCurses to D. Currently some of the functionality works on Windows. If you want to use curses for something useful (e.g. rogue), you'll probably be better off using ncurses (or PDCurses as it has a native Windows implementation) yet. I think it'll be a while until dcurses is ready. It's mostly a learning experience for me.
>
>Lars Ivar Igesund
>
>Tabris wrote:
>> Does anyone know if there are any ncurses bindings around for D? I'm looking to develop a roguelike using D, and it would save me a lot of time if someone has already done all the nasty work of converting ncurses.h to a D module -- particularly as there are so many macro functions in there that I have no idea how to tackle parts of it. For example:
>> 
>> extern NCURSES_EXPORT_VAR(chtype) acs_map[];
>> 
>> #define NCURSES_ACS(c)	(acs_map[(unsigned char)c])
>> 
>> /* VT100 symbols begin here */
>> #define ACS_ULCORNER	NCURSES_ACS('l') /* upper left corner */
>> #define ACS_LLCORNER	NCURSES_ACS('m') /* lower left corner */
>> ..
>> etc.
>> 
>> Does D support exported variables like this?
>> Would the declaration become something like this?
>> export chtype *acs_map;
>> 
>> 


Can't wait to see your D implementation of curses :)

If I manage to create a D ncurses binding successfully, I'll bump this thread with it, since there must be a few other people in this position.

I wrote an ncurses translation and it works pretty well.
It doesn't support all the functions, but you can fill them in as you wish.

The only small problem is the C macros for the ACS characters.
In C you would do:
putchar(ACS_BULLET)

I couldn't get that to work in D so i do this instead:
putchar(acs_map[ACS_BULLET]);

wish is good enough for me.

Good luck, Jaap

Hi Tabris,

Is Rogue a screen widget library?

Actually I developed one. It's not complete, it's not very efficient, but
the basics are working and it does what I currently need. (windows, buttons,
editboxes, tables, pulldown, listbox, radio, checkbox, progressbar). It can
do UTF-8 too.
If you are interested let me know.

Jaap


"Tabris" <Tabris_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cksd0c$2322$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Does anyone know if there are any ncurses bindings around for D? I'm
looking to
> develop a roguelike using D, and it would save me a lot of time if someone
has
> already done all the nasty work of converting ncurses.h to a D module -- particularly as there are so many macro functions in there that I have no
idea
> how to tackle parts of it. For example:
>
> extern NCURSES_EXPORT_VAR(chtype) acs_map[];
>
> #define NCURSES_ACS(c) (acs_map[(unsigned char)c])
>
> /* VT100 symbols begin here */
> #define ACS_ULCORNER NCURSES_ACS('l') /* upper left corner */
> #define ACS_LLCORNER NCURSES_ACS('m') /* lower left corner */
> ..
> etc.
>
> Does D support exported variables like this?
> Would the declaration become something like this?
> export chtype *acs_map;
>
>

Please ignore the attachment in the last post. It won't compile because it had some windows stuff in it.

Here is the ncurses pure one.

Jaap

Jaap Geurts wrote:
> Hi Tabris,
> 
> Is Rogue a screen widget library?

Rogue was an early consolebased game. NetHack, Angband and others are classified as Rogue-likes.

Lars Ivar Igesund

In article <cl3don$6uj$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Jaap Geurts says...
>
>Please ignore the attachment in the last post. It won't compile because it had some windows stuff in it.
>
>Here is the ncurses pure one.
>
>Jaap
>
>

Many thanks, this has saved me a fair amount of work :)