Re: pkg/41423: CenterIM unusable: ignores several keys (like enter)

[Julian Coleman <jdc%coris.org.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41423; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Julian Coleman <jdc%coris.org.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/41423: CenterIM unusable: ignores several keys (like enter)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 12:37:12 +0100

 Hi,
 
 >  I just wanted to ask if there are any news about this problem, or anything
 >  I could contribute to help, since so far there seems to be no reaction to
 >  this PR other than an assignment...
 >  
 >  So far, CenterIM remains unusable and I still don't have clue why (else I
 >  would have attached a patch/solution :) )
 
 I have started to look at this.  When it starts up, the screen looks OK
 apart from any highlighted items are white on white (title, current
 selection).  Using the left arrow key will get me to a sub-menu plus box
 borders drawn in an odd place.  No other keys appear to do anything.
 
 > At first, I got some garbage on the screen, too, but found out rather
 > quickly that I have to add
 >
 > INCOMPAT_CURSES+=       NetBSD 5.*_* NetBSD-5.*-*
 
 This tends to imply that there is an application bug, as it will not work
 with either NetBSD curses nor ncurses.  I will look at the debugging output
 from our curses library and see what I can spot.
 
 Do other version of centerim (apart from the one in pkgsrc) work?
 
 Thanks,
 
 J
 
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