Re: Invisible form fields w/ ncurses-5.7 on Fedora

[Grant Edwards]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 07:08:19PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > I assume that the version with two set_form_win() calls wouldn't be
> > expected to work, so I don't think there's anything that really needs
> > to be investigated.  But, if you'd like I can track down the details
> > for the two different "5.7" libraries.
> 
> That might help (at least me, so I could see why the behavior changed).
> Since the application code was incorrect, then it might have been a
> fix in ncurses (not certain...).

Here's what I've gathered so far:

  Doesnt' work:

    Fedora 14 ncurses-5.7-8.20100703.fc14
    Fedora 14 ncurses-5.7-9.20100703.fc14
    Gentoo ncurses-5.9

  Works:

    Gentoo ncurses-5.7-r7
    Older Fedora (exact versions still unknown)

I'm currently download Fedora 13 to see if that works.

Here are some files including the application source and source
trees/patches used by Gentoo:

   http://www.panix.com/~grante/files/ncurses-stuff/

I'll let you know if I figure out which version of the Fedora
libraries were still working.

Remember, there's no need for you to look into anything of this on my
account -- I've fixed my application and it works fine now.