Newtrodit-LCL
This is the channel for the ongoing development of Newtrodit-LCL, a compatibility layer for Newtrodit made by @earth's bird and @earth's god
D@earth's god I'm going to make a new branch for LCL called NCurses. I'll be reworking everything to use NCurses, this (if done correctly) will fix many bugs and issues we've faced on the Linux side
A:blobhappy:
AGlad to hear this
AHope we can make it a decent editor
DMe too!
DAlso with NCurses setting color at a specific position is possible
ANice
AThat will help a LOT in performance
AI've been also thinking of adding 24-bit support if the terminal supports it
DPretty much every major bug we've come across can be fixed by using NCurses
DThat would be nice. NCurses wraps around terminfo we can detect if the terminal supports 24-bit color
ASame for Windows, detecting if 24-bit color is available is simple
DAdded some really basic NCurses support
DHad my machine crash way to much though
ASounds good
AThat doesn't sound good tho xd
DNCurses gives many helpful things to the table though
DLol
DI'm not even sure why it crashes my computer, trying to find the issue now
ACan NCurses getch detect shift?
DYes I think so
ALike, differentiate Ctrl-S from Ctrl-Shift-S
DYes
DNCurses should be able to detect modifier keys separately
A
DNCurses also have functions for detecting numpad buttons
Dlike it can detect the difference between pressing 1 on a keyboard and 1 on the numpad
AThat is also very good
DOk stopped the crashing of my computer part. Now nothing gets displayed, which I also think I know the reason for.
AThe only thing I don't like is that we'll have to replace all printf statements to printw
DI don't think we need to, do we? It seems printf works
D
AWhat about fputs and fwrite
DNot sure about them
AWhat is that depricated message
DSomething I implemented for debuging
DTo find what parts of the project use old functions that get replaced by NCurses
AAh ok
ANvm I thought it was from curses
ASorry lol
DNo worries
DI can see the confusion
DAh we do have to use printw
DHow would that translate to Windows? Maybe we write a custom print function that checks if you're on Windows or Linux?
Ayeah
ASame arguments as printf, with an #ifdef inside
DYep that's what I was thinking
AWith a va_list
DWhat should we call it? , Newtrodit print
ASimply