Programming the console in UNIX? Here's just what you need. First, you'll get a no-nonsense tutorial guide to the nCurses version 5.5 library, taking you from basic to advanced functions step by step. Then you'll find an A-to-Z reference of more than 175 nCurses functions, cross-referenced and illustrated with examples. With this all-purpose nCurses reference, you?ll: Learn techniques that can be used to program Linux®, FreeBSD®, Mac OS® X, or any other UNIX-based OS. Program, control, and manipulate text on the terminal screen. Control interactive I/O, organize content into windows on the screen, and use color to highlight text and organize information. Use a mouse to further refine input. Create nCurses programs using your choice of editors. Find hundreds of quick, easy-to-understand programming examples. Author Dan Gookin is known for making technology make sense. Buy this book and you'll see why.

Get up and running quickly with Ncruses programming. This tutorial covers all the basics, from configuring Ncurses to coding multi-window, full-screen applications for the text mode, terminal window. You must have a foundation in C programming and be familiar with the terminal shell, such as bash.This book has all the information and entertainment you'd expect from a Gookin book. From the author and creator of the original For Dummies title, "DOS For Dummies," as well as multitudinous other books, including "Beginning Programming With C For Dummies."

Understanding windows; Terminal independence; The curses library; Sample program; Quick reference.

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This book is for all people who are forced to use UNIX. It is a humorous book--pure entertainment--that maintains that UNIX is a computer virus with a user interface. It features letters from the thousands posted on the Internet's "UNIX-Haters" mailing list. It is not a computer handbook, tutorial, or reference. It is a self-help book that will let readers know they are not alone.

The goal of Ncurses is to simplify the task of programming for character-cell terminals. A character-cell terminal is a combination of a display that shows text in a monospaced font and the keyboard and mouse that connect to it. These days, there are three common types of terminals. Actual hardware terminals, such as the DEC VT220 or the Boundless Technologies VT525, are dedicated thin clients that interact with a networked computer via a serial port. These are still somewhat common in legacy applications or industrial applications where computers would be too expensive or too fragile, but, they are rapidly becoming extinct. Second are the consoles of text-mode operating systems, such as the console of GNU/Linux when used without X/Windows or the command prompt of FreeDOS. The third type is the terminal emulation programs that some windowing systems have. The best known terminal emulation program is probably XTerm, which does a good emulation of a VT220 terminal. The Ncurses library attempts to create a standardized solution for these problems. A program needs to know which keys are pressed and when. A program needs to know a terminal's capabilities. Can text be bold, italic, or in color? A program needs to know how to exploit a terminal's capabilities. How does a program tell the terminal to move the cursor, to change text color, or to erase the screen?

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