[Patch]: Ncurses frame drawing

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Oct 15 17:13:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:27:24AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:50:09AM +0200, Micha Nelissen wrote:
>> Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> >FWIW, wouldn't it be cleaner to make "alternate_charset_active" a 
>> >member of dev_state instead of introducing a new global variable?
>> 
>> Yes, although original_codepage was a viable candidate for a global 
>> variable?. Never mind, but then either:
>
>Well, think "historically grown code".
>
>> 1) that alternate_charset check which currently is in str_to_con 
>> (centralized), needs to dispersed over all calls to str_to_con. 
>> (Currently, 1, AFAICS). Prone to bugs, if you ask me because this could 
>> be forgotten in the future, unless this one call will remain the only one.
>> 2) str_to_con has to become a member of dev_state too.
>
>Point 2 has some merits.  Are you interested to do that change, Micha?
>Of course, con_to_str should become a dev_state member then, too.

I think it is crucial that we do this.  Otherwise child processes will
be out of sync with parents.  dev_state is supposed to make sure that
doesn't happen.

cgf



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