2 This is Version 00.90.00 of the demo package.
4 In a menu you can use the following Keys in the whole application:
7 - CTRL-N Go to next item
8 - CTRL-P Go to previous item
9 - CTRL-U Scroll up one line
10 - CTRL-D Scroll down one line
11 - CTRL-F Scroll down one page
12 - PAGE DOWN Scroll down one page
13 - PAGE UP Scroll back one page
14 - CTRL-B Scroll back one page
15 - CTRL-Y Clear pattern
16 - CTRL-H Delete last character from pattern
17 - Backspace Delete last character from pattern
18 - CTRL-A Next pattern match
19 - CTRL-E Previous pattern match
20 - CTRL-T Toggle item in a multi-selection menu
21 - CR or LF Select an item
22 - HOME Key Go to the first item
24 - Cursor Down Down one item
25 - Cursor Up Up one item
26 - Cursor Left Left one item
27 - Cursor Right Right one item
28 - END Key Go to last item
30 - CTRL-X eXit the form
31 - CTRL-F Go forward to the next field
32 - CTRL-B Go backward to the previous field
33 - CTRL-L Go to the field left of the current one
34 - CTRL-R Go to the field right of the current one
35 - CTRL-U Go to the field above the current one
36 - CTRL-D Go to the field below the current one
38 - CTRL-W Go to the next word in the field
39 - CTRL-T Go to the previous word in the field
41 - CTRL-A Go to the beginning of the field
42 - CTRL-E Go to the end of the field
44 - CTRL-I Insert a blank character at the current position
45 - CTRL-O Insert a line
46 - CTRL-V Delete a character
47 - CTRL-H Delete previous character
48 - CTRL-Y Delete a line
49 - CTRL-G Delete a word
50 - CTRL-K Clear to end of field
52 - CTRL-N Next choice in a choice field (Enumerations etc.)
53 - CTRL-P Previous choice in a choice field.
56 You may scroll with the Cursor Up/Down Keys.
57 You may leave the help with the Function Key labeled 'Quit'.
59 You are already in the help system.
60 You may leave the help with the Function Key labeled 'Quit'.
62 This is the main menu of the sample program for the ncurses Ada95
63 binding. The main intention of the demo is not to demonstrate or
64 test all the features of ncurses and its subsystems, but to provide
65 to you some sample code how to use the binding with Ada95.
67 You may select this options:
69 * Look at some ncurses core functions
70 * Look at some features of the menu subsystem
71 * Look at some features of the form subsystem
72 * Look at the output of the Ada.Text_IO like functions
76 You may press at any place in this demo CTRL-C. This will give you a command
77 window. You can just type in the Label-String of a function key, then this
78 key will be simulated. This should help you to run the application even if
79 you run it on a terminal with no or only a few function keys. With CTRL-N
80 and CTRL-P you may browse through the possible values in the command window.
82 Here we give you a selection of various menu demonstrations.
84 This menu itself is a demo for a single valued, 1-column menu with
85 descriptions for the items, a marker and a padding character between
86 the item name and the description.
88 This is a demo of the some of the menu layout options. One of them
89 is the spacing functionality. Just press the Key labeled "Flip" to
90 flip between the non-spaced and a spaced version of the menu. Please
91 note that this functionality is unique for ncurses and is not found
92 in the SVr4 menu implementation.
94 This is a menu that sometimes does not fit into its window and
95 therefore it becomes a scroll menu.
97 You can also see here very nicely the pattern matching functionality
98 of menus. Type for example a 'J' and you will be positioned to the
99 next item after the current starting with a 'J'. Any more characters
100 you type in make the pattern more specific. With CTRL-A and CTRL-Z
101 (for more details press the Key labeled "Keys") you can browse
102 through all the items matching the pattern.
104 You may change the format of the menu. Just press one of the keys
105 labeled "4x1", "4x2" or "4x3" to get a menu with that many rows
108 With the Keys "O-Row" or "O-Col" (they occupy the same label and
109 switch on selection) you can change the major order scheme for
110 the menu. If "O-Col" is visible, the menu is currently major
111 ordered by rows, you can switch to major column order by pressing
112 the key. If "O-Row" is visible, it is just the reverse situation.
113 This Key is not visible in "4x1" layout mode, because in this case
114 the functionality makes no sense.
116 With the Keys "Multi" or "Singl" (they occupy the same label and
117 switch on selection) you can change whether or not the menu allows
118 multiple or only single selection.
120 With the Keys "+Desc" or "-Desc" (they occupy the same label and
121 switch on selection) you can change whether or not the descriptions
122 for each item should be displayed. Please not that this key is
123 not visible in the "4x3" layout mode, because in this case the
124 menu would not fit on a typical 80x24 screen.
126 With the Keys "Disab" or "Enab" (they occupy the same label and
127 switch on selection) you can dis- or enable the selectability of
128 the month with 31 days.
130 You may press "Flip" to see the effect of ncurses unique menu-spacing.
131 The Keys "4x1", "4x2" and "4x3" will change the format of the menu.
132 Please note that this is a scrolling menu. You may also play with the
133 pattern matching functionality or try to change the format of the menu.
134 For more details press the Key labeled "Help".
136 This is a demo of the forms package.
138 Please note that this demo is far from being complete. It really shows
139 only a small part of the functionality of the forms package. Let's hope
140 the next version will have a richer demo (You want to contribute ?).
142 Sorry this functionality of the demo is not implemented at the moment.
143 Remember this is a freeware project, so I can use only my very rare
144 free time to continue coding. If you would like to contribute, you
147 This is a menu where you can select some different demos of the ncurses
150 Please note that this demo is far from being complete. It really shows
151 only a small part of the functionality of the curses package. Let's hope
152 the next version will have a richer demo (You want to contribute ?).
154 In this demo you may use this keys:
156 - Key labeled "Help" to get a help
157 - Key labeled "Keys" is what you are reading now
158 - Key labeled "Quit" to leave the demo
160 You may click the mouse buttons at any location at the screen and look
161 at the protocol window !
163 A rather simple use of a mouse as demo. It is there just to test the
164 code and to provide the sample source.
166 It might be of interest, that the output into the protocol window is
167 done by the (n)curses Text_IO subpackages. Especially the output of
168 the button and state names is done by Ads's enumeration IO, which
169 allows you to print the names of enumeration literals. That's really
172 This is a very simple demo of the mouse features of ncurses. It is there
173 just to test whether or not the generated code for the binding really
174 works on the different architectures (seems so).
176 Again this is a more than simple demo and just here to give you the
179 You may press one of the three well known standard keys of this demo.
181 Again this is a more than simple demo and just here to give you the
182 source code. Feel free to contribute more.