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7603 :: ncurses trouble

• ShinraTensei (orginal) [2021-03-10T19:12:02+01:00] view original

  So i'm using https://github.com/rnowley/nim-ncurses, appeared to be working fine untill i tried setting color on some text, just for test.

  The C example does:

  init_pair(1, COLOR_RED, COLOR_BLACK); attron(COLOR_PAIR(1)); printw("Something"); attroff(COLOR_PAIR(1);

  So naturally i did: init_pair(1, COLOR_RED, COLOR_BLACK) attron(COLOR_PAIR(1)) mvprintw(0,0, "Test") attroff(COLOR_PAIR(1))

  I get:

  Error: type mismatch: got <uint32> but expected one of: proc attr_on(attrs: attr_t; opts: pointer): ErrCode attron proc is implemented as: proc attron*(attrs: cint): ErrCode {.cdecl, importc, discardable, dynlib: libncurses.} in ncurses.nim. I tried many combinations to no avail. Maybe someone could help, im kind of dumb and only program for fun when i have free time :)

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• SolitudeSF (orginal) [2021-03-10T19:16:51+01:00] view original

  explicitly convert COLOR_PAIR(1) to cint. COLOR_PAIR(1).cint

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• ShinraTensei (orginal) [2021-03-10T19:18:06+01:00] view original

  Thank you so much, i spent 2 hours trying to figure it out

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• sekao (orginal) [2021-03-11T07:48:49+01:00] view original

  For TUI programs you should also check out https://github.com/johnnovak/illwill it's really nice.

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