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| alexxx.magni@gmail.com 2006-02-08, 6:59 pm |
| Hello everybody, I hope someone can help me.
I am having troubles trying to display some text (in a Perl/Tk program)
using curses characters screen handling, inside Tk widgets.
It exists some way to do it?
I am really at a loss...
thanks
Alessandro Magni
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| alexxx.magni@gmail.com 2006-02-08, 6:59 pm |
| I'll answer myself for the sake of future souls having the same problem
- thanks to a PerlMonk:
> by zentara on Feb 07, 2006 at 12:40 UTC
> If you just want to run a curses app embedded in a Tk window, you should be able to
>do it by embedding an xterm with the -e option, to execute the curses app. That should
>take care of all the keys working in the curses app. See embedding xterm into a Tk app > => http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=359764
>In that script, if you change it to
> system("xterm -into $xtId -e /usr/bin/mc &");
> It will run midnight commander in the Tk window.
> If you are trying to mix Tk and Curses code, in the same window, it will be a tough
>thing to do. Actually it would be easier to define what the curses application is doing,
>then port it to Tk code.
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