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    Terminal User Interface

    Hello.

    I was wondering if i can use curses lib for windows with C language.

    This is what i've found.

    PDCurses - Public Domain Curses

    whats your opinion?

    Thanks in advanced.

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    Hmm i create the .lib file with nmake and in the project (Visual studio 2010) in
    properties/Linker/Input/aditional dependancies i add 'pdcurses.lib' (without quotes).

    Then im trying to compile a simple hello world and this error

    1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'pdcurses.lib'
    What that means. ?

    I search in c:\windows\system32 and i ve found the file pdcurses.lib

    Why this happens . Does anyone know ?

    EDIT:

    Finally instead of pdcurses.lib i put the whole path c:\Windows\System32\pdcurses.lib and that worked.


    Does anyone know a good tutorial in curses programming?

    Thanks
    Last edited by netpumber; 10-31-2011 at 12:43 PM.

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    Hello once again..

    I have read the tutorial but now i want to create a simple menu but i can't do this with pdCurses. The menu.h is nowhere..

    When im trying to use it, an error returned.

    Is there any way to create a menu with pdCurses ?

    Thanks in advance.

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    How could anyone properly answer such a question, except with "Yes, there is."?

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    Ok. Here are the clear questions
    How to create a menu while the menu.h file doesn't exists ?
    Which is the way you could create a menu on pdcurses ?
    Last edited by netpumber; 11-02-2011 at 11:03 AM.

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    How to create a menu while the menu.h file doesn't exists ?
    You don't. Make sure your setup is correct.

    Which is the way you could create a menu on pdcurses ?
    The HOW-TO link above has an excellent example. Read it.
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