[vdr] Re: ncurses without keyboard?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> 
> On Montag 31 Mai 2004 13:00, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > I'm currently writing a VDR plugin that re-implements the
> > functionality that was available through DEBUG_OSD in VDR
> > versions before 1.3.7. Unfortunately the 'ncurses' library
> > apparently completly takes over control of the keyboard,
> > which prevents the "normal" keyboard handler in VDR from
> > working.
> >
> > Does anybody know a way to tell ncurses just to do the display
> > part and leave the keaboard alone?
> 
> I suppose you call initscr or newterm or the like for initializing ncurses.
> 
> If so, does it help to only call setupterm instead ? That could mean
> that you can only use the low level routines to access the terminfo
> database, but I am not sure.
> 
> See man setupterm

This doesn't sound like it would do what I want.
Besides, calling just setupterm() and not initscr() leads
to a segfault.

Klaus