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| author | Rong-En Fan <rafan@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-01-20 07:32:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Rong-En Fan <rafan@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-01-20 07:32:02 +0000 |
| commit | 4a1a95108dd76c4259fe6c37c4471f7969b17983 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c6c3b549401156e1dbd96b9a6b18521f63ffb58 /contrib/ncurses/doc/html/hackguide.html | |
| parent | 555c9cae3cf9146482732c28c06a73314b618149 (diff) | |
| download | src-4a1a95108dd76c4259fe6c37c4471f7969b17983.tar.gz src-4a1a95108dd76c4259fe6c37c4471f7969b17983.zip | |
Import ncurses 5.6-20061217 onto the vender branch
Approved by: delphij
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svn path=/vendor/ncurses/dist/; revision=166124
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diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/doc/html/hackguide.html b/contrib/ncurses/doc/html/hackguide.html index ce033a1cdb5b..97d1369170c1 100644 --- a/contrib/ncurses/doc/html/hackguide.html +++ b/contrib/ncurses/doc/html/hackguide.html @@ -1,11 +1,39 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.0//EN"> <!-- - $Id: hackguide.html,v 1.25 2000/03/25 18:45:21 tom Exp $ + $Id: hackguide.html,v 1.27 2005/12/24 15:37:13 tom Exp $ + **************************************************************************** + * Copyright (c) 1998-2003,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * + * * + * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * + * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * + * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * + * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * + * distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell * + * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * + * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * + * * + * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included * + * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * + * * + * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS * + * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * + * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. * + * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, * + * DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR * + * OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR * + * THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * + * * + * Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright * + * holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the * + * sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written * + * authorization. * + **************************************************************************** --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>A Hacker's Guide to Ncurses Internals</TITLE> <link rev="made" href="mailto:bugs-ncurses@gnu.org"> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <!-- This document is self-contained, *except* that there is one relative link to the ncurses-intro.html document, expected to be in the same directory with @@ -286,10 +314,6 @@ header comments of <CODE>hardscroll.c</CODE> and <CODE>hashmap.c</CODE>; then tr it out. You can also test the hardware-scrolling optimization separately with <CODE>hardscroll</CODE>. <P> -There's one other interactive tester, <CODE>tctest</CODE>, that exercises -translation between termcap and terminfo formats. If you have a serious -need to run this, you probably belong on our development team! - <H1><A NAME="ncurslib">A Tour of the Ncurses Library</A></H1> <H2><A NAME="loverview">Library Overview</A></H2> @@ -377,7 +401,7 @@ trace_buf.c </code> </blockquote> It is rather unlikely you will ever need to change these, unless -you want to introduce a new debug trace level for some reasoon.<P> +you want to introduce a new debug trace level for some reason.<P> There is another group of files that do direct I/O via <EM>tputs()</EM>, computations on the terminal capabilities, or queries to the OS @@ -558,7 +582,7 @@ Then <CODE>lib_doupdate.c</CODE> goes to work. Its job is to do line-by-line transformations of <CODE>curscr</CODE> lines to <CODE>newscr</CODE> lines. Its main tool is the routine <CODE>mvcur()</CODE> in <CODE>lib_mvcur.c</CODE>. This routine does cursor-movement optimization, attempting to get from given screen -location A to given location B in the fewest output characters posible. <P> +location A to given location B in the fewest output characters possible. <P> If you want to work on screen optimizations, you should use the fact that (in the trace-enabled version of the library) enabling the |