problem with a program

hamedhsn · 01-23-2011, 11:34 PM

hi
this is simple program in ncurses, when i run it nothing happend.what is the problem with it??

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ncurses.h>

#define WIDTH 30
#define HEIGHT 10 

int startx = 0;
int starty = 0;


int main()
{	int c, choice = 0;
FILE *fp;
fp = fopen ("log.txt", "a");
	WINDOW *menu_win;
	initscr();
	MEVENT event;

	mousemask(ALL_MOUSE_EVENTS, NULL);
	
	while(1)
	{
	  refresh();
	  c = getch();
	  if (c==KEY_MOUSE)
	  {
	    getmouse(&event);
	    /* When the user clicks left mouse button */
	    if(event.bstate & BUTTON1_CLICKED)
	    printf("left click\n");
	    fprintf(fp,"click");

	  }
	}		
endwin();
}

gothrog · 01-24-2011, 04:16 PM

What are you using to compile it? Sometimes when nothing happens it is because you set the project to be a consul and not a windows app at least in Visual C++. I assume the samething might happen with other IDEs.

Snark1994 · 01-24-2011, 05:41 PM

Compiling it using

Code:

gcc curses.c -o curses -lcurses

and running from a console, when I click I get random letters written to the screen and nothing to log.txt. You can't use printf() reliably (if at all) inside curses in my experience - curses plays with stdout, so it doesn't work as you would expect it to. Also, you have no way to safely close the programme, so the logfile you open never gets closed or flushed, so the logfile will be empty. A better way to test your script would be to either have a way to exit (pressing a key?) which cleans up the logfile, or to use functions like printw() to display debug information... curses style

However, this is just guessing at what you mean by "when i run it nothing happend.what is the problem with it??"... You haven't told us:
i) How you compiled it (or even what language you used, but we can guess that. Though we shouldn't have to

)
ii) What you expected it to do (I assumed printing the text when you click)
iii) What actually happened

wje_lq · 01-24-2011, 07:31 PM

You're not checking the return value from calling the mousemask() function. You should always check the return value from calling the mousemask() function.