Problem with scanw() in ncurses
Charles S. Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Fri Mar 16 06:13:00 GMT 2001
Known problem; no known explanation. I think there's a note in the
release announcement that the test program
(/usr/bin/ncurses-test-dll/testscanw.exe) doesn't work; check
cygwin-announce archives. This problem is not dll-related, because the
statically-linked version (/usr/bin/ncurses-test-stat/testscanw.exe)
also does not work.
Debug results and patches gratefully and gleefully accepted.
--Chuck
cygwin ncurses maintainer
Dan Levin wrote:
>
> Hello everybody !
>
> I downloaded Cygwin yesterday and was delighted to find ncurses included
> ! I started a test with a bigger program that I originally wrote for
> Linux. It worked out fine - except for one thing. I could not read
> integers from the keyboard with 'scanw()' ! I was rather surprised, so I
> made a small test program that focuses on function 'scanw()' in
> ncurses. This is how it looks:
>
[code]
>
> When I run it - I always get 0 as a result. If I don't initialize the
> variables 'a' and 'b' - I get a random number instead. I interpret this
> as the fact that 'scanw()' fails in putting the numbers I enter from the
> keyboard in 'a' and 'b' ! I've checked with gdb - with the same result !
> I've looked through the mail archives without finding a message
> concerning the same problem.
>
> Platform: Win98SE on a DELL OptiplexGX1p
>
> I'm rather eager to get ncurses working in Cygwin, since I think it
> would be a great environment for educational purposes in C/C++ (together
> with Emacs for Windows)!
>
> Anybody got an idea !? Thanks in advance !
--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
More information about the Cygwin
mailing list