Programmer's Guide to NCurses

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 556 pages
• Published by: Wiley February 20, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470107596
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470107591
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Product Description
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, youll:

• 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.

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Programming the console in UNIX?

Here's just what you need

With the growing popularity of Mac OS X and various Linux flavors, UNIX claims more and more devotees every day. The nCurses library is the programming tool you need to work in this environment, and this book is your all-purpose nCurses reference.

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. Dan Gookin is known for making technology make sense. You'll soon see why.

Build a firm foundation for nCurses

• 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
• Gain a solid understanding of nCurses, from the basics to the advanced
• Find hundreds of quick, easy-to-understand programming examples
• Explore the detailed nCurses library reference included, with examples and cross-references as well as more details and descriptions than you'll find anywhere else

Reader Reviews
This is just about the only book availablon NCurses. In fact, the only book even close is the O'Rielly Warthog book on Curses and it's twenty years old. As a book on nCurses, this one is really quite good. It starts quite simple with bringing up a text editor in a terminal window and a text editor and going on from there. A little less than half the book is a tutorial that gives you specific 'cookbook' like instructions to get you familiar with the syntax and general concepts of working in NCurses. After that it becomes a reference book where each of the 175-180 (or so) functions in the NCurses library is discussed. There's usually a Format Reference, the Value Returned by the function, Notes, Examples, and a Sample Program that uses that function. The book does not have a CD so the NCurses library of functions itself is not included. But it usually comes with the Linux disturbutions and is certainly available over the Internet.