Author: Jonathan Osuch Date: To: Fractint developer's list Subject: Re: [Fractdev] Re: New substantially improved version
Jean-Pierre,
> * commented out an instruction by adding
> #if defined(XFRACT) && defined(NCURSES)
> if (width>=80) width=79; /* Some systems choke in column 80 */
> #endif
> in 'realdos.c' (otherwise text gets badly indented on top right
> corner).
> 'xfcurses.c' definitely accepts width=80 (or more).
>
> > 2) We need to take a look at intro.c because I inadvertently left the
> > checks for NCURSES in it.
> These checks are needed in order to call refresh(), and I was led to
> put this because of the rather different way xfcurses and ncurses
> work. It could be possible to make changes to xfcurses so that this
> becomes unnecessary, but I have not been able to do it right now
> without slowing down considerably the display of characters (too
> many redundant refresh calls occur).
Yes, I had noticed the slow down when the seemingly extra refresh
routine is removed.
If we have X11 is there still a need for ncurses? Disk video?
Platforms that don't support X11?
