curses suggestions wanted_(re)

Thu, 07 Aug 1997 09:06:26 -0700

At 02:19 PM 8/7/97 +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
>
>Peter Gerwinski wrote:
>
>> In such situations, where the procedure/function does not change the
>> parameter, you can declare it with a `PChar' parameter.  GPC knows what
>> to do if the user passes a String schema and implicitly passes the address
>> of the string data instead of the address of the schema.
>
>But it doesn't add a #0 terminator, so the result may be wrong, as in the
>following program:
>
>program x;
>{$x+}
>
>procedure p(x:pchar);
>begin
> writeln(x)
>end;
>
>var x:string(10)='abc';
>begin
> x:='x';
> p(x)
>end.
>

If I use the built in conversion this would be a problem, but I plan on
converting string to cstring using a little strings unit I wrote just for
this purpose.  Ncurses expects a real zero terminated string.  You can get
around that by coding `x := x + chr(0)' in Frank's example above but I want
the ncurses usage to be seemless (more or less) with as little calling
overhead as possible.  No problems with that, now that I know how to use
AsmName.

I will adopt the `foo' and 'cfoo' (where foo is pascal and cfoo is C)
convention.

Thanks for the comments!
Ken L.

Ken Linder KC7RAD kc7rad@vegasnet.net (kc7rad@vegasnet.net)