Re: [Tlf-devel] ncurses-6 woes - state of the affair

[Ervin Hegedüs]

Hi Thomas, and everyone,

I'm also wishing to Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 02:31:09PM +0100, Thomas Beierlein wrote:
> First a Merry Christmas to all of you. Before the guests are coming in
> let me just give a short report on the state of TLF and teh the ncurses6
> problems.
> 
> Am Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:29:21 +0100
> schrieb Thomas Beierlein <address@hidden>:
> > I had just to switch to using ncurses-6 (after 5.9 before).
> > Now it looks as the screen color handling is going wild. 
> > Bandmap and score window have weird colors. 
> > 
> Fixing the color turned out to be easy. It was just that some feature
> test macros were missing. The fix solved also a problem reported a
> little bit earlier about ncurses with a stripped out tinfo lib.
> 
> But there was a much bigger problem with regard to the handling
> of the cluster screen. The old way to have cluster and logger screen
> separate does not longer work at all and so we had to switch to a
> complete new handling.
> 
> You can see the result in the ncruses6 branch on github
> https://github.com/Tlf/tlf/tree/ncurses6
> 
> That code should work just as before and it should work for ncurses 5
> and 6. It would be nice if you could give it a try and report back.
> Then I can integrate it into TLFs master branch.

I've got a new laptop at my work, I've installed a new version of
Mint (18.1). I'll see what that using, and will report the
result.
 
> What happened else and what is coming the next days. 
> 
> - I just merged in some nice addition from Ervin HA2OS who did some
>   work to enable sprint like contests for TLF where you switch
>   automatically between run and S&P mode after each QSO. 
>   Maybe you can try it out tomorrow during the DARC christmas contest.
>   Just download the newest master branch from github and set SPLITMODE
>   in logcfg.dat.

just a short correction: the keyword in logcfg.dat/rule file
isn't SPLITMODE. The right keyword is SPRINTMODE.

The Tlf manpage contains the documentation.

I've participated yesterday on DARC XMAS, and it worked as well.



73, Ervin

ps: sorry for the late answer, for some reason in some cases, Gmail
drops the incoming mails from Thomas to Spam. I just realised
this mail now.

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