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david48 | 20 Dec 23:17

Is there some place where I can find the hs-curses doc ?

It seems I can't find it.

David.

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Don Stewart | 20 Dec 23:24

Re: Is there some place where I can find the hs-curses doc ?

dav.vire+haskell:
> It seems I can't find it.
> 

hscurses, Stefan Wehr's package of the curses binding is pre-hackage
and pre-cabal, so you can only get the source:

    http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wehr/haskell/

there's another curses binding in hmp3, 

    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/hmp3/Curses.hsc

that i keep meaning to package up, but never do.

both these modules use the curses man pages as the main source of
documentation.

-- Don

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david48 | 20 Dec 23:56

Re: Is there some place where I can find the hs-curses doc ?

On Dec 20, 2007 11:24 PM, Don Stewart <dons <at> galois.com> wrote:

> there's another curses binding in hmp3,
>     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/hmp3/Curses.hsc
> that i keep meaning to package up, but never do.

Thanks !

There's quite a lot of stuff I don't understand in Curses.hsc ( the
use of # chars for example in #const or (P.packAddress "initscr"##) or
(#type bool) ) I hope the FFI libs have the answers in the doc.

David.

P.S. Sorry for not prefixing the title with [Haskell-cafe] -- I'll try
to remember it next time.

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Stefan O'Rear | 21 Dec 00:05

Re: Is there some place where I can find the hs-curses doc ?

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:56:04PM +0100, david48 wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2007 11:24 PM, Don Stewart <dons <at> galois.com> wrote:
> 
> > there's another curses binding in hmp3,
> >     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/hmp3/Curses.hsc
> > that i keep meaning to package up, but never do.
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> There's quite a lot of stuff I don't understand in Curses.hsc ( the
> use of # chars for example in #const or (P.packAddress "initscr"##) or
> (#type bool) ) I hope the FFI libs have the answers in the doc.

Those are actually unrelated.

"initscr"# is a GHC extension, producing a memory address (effectively
an Int) of a string in the .rodata section, like a C string, and usable
as arguments for C string functions.

(#const FOO) is a directive to the hsc2hs preprocessor, instructing it
to find the value of FOO and insert it in the source code here.

> P.S. Sorry for not prefixing the title with [Haskell-cafe] -- I'll try
> to remember it next time.

Don't - mailman does it automatically.

Stefan

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