[maemo-developers] console curses application

[From: Eugene Antimirov]

> Hi,
>  It's my first experience in development on maemo platform.  I'm developing ca
> console application.
>  I have downloaded virtual machine and have tried to run some sample applicatons.
>  But all examples I have seen have GUI interface, so I have the several questions:
>
>  1. How can I run a console apptiocation on scratchbox?
>      If i run sample GUI appplictions (./example1.py) I can found running
> aaplication on the Xephyr window.
>      But if I run hello-world console application I don't see any effect.

So it just hangs up or prints some error?

>  2. Is there curses library on maemo platform? I have found the 'top' program
> on N810,
>     so I suppose the answer is 'yes'. But when I try to include the header
> (#include <curses.h>)
>     scratchbox cannot find this header. Where can I find a simple example of
> curses application?
>
>     Something like this:
>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <curses.h>
>
> int main() {
>    initscr();
>    move(5, 15);
>    printw(?%s?, ?Hello World?);
>    refresh();
>    sleep(2);
>    endwin();
>    exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
> }

Scratchbox actually has curses.h, I guess you missed to add
"-lncurses" to your linker parameters line:

$ cc curses.c -o curses -lncurses

>
>   3. Can I create console application on python with curses library?  I need
> somthing like:
>
>   import curses
>   # ....

>From http://pymaemo.garage.maemo.org/documentation/pymaemo_tutorial/python_maemo_howto.html
"Python limitations in maemo
...
The following modules are deprecated:

...curses...

I guess you should compile this module for you and provide as
additional third-party library. Or submit a request to pymaemo's
maintainers ;)

-- 
Sincerely,
Eugene