Re: [PATCH/RFC] kconfig/lxdialog: make lxdialof a built-in

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sun Jul 30 2006 - 17:43:27 EST


On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 02:42:07PM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>
> I don't like "double ESC" idea at all.
>
> I am a Midnight Commander user and I use "old ESC mode"
> where single ESC works after a delay.
>
> I patched mc to look at KEYBOARD_KEY_TIMEOUT_US environment variable
> so that delay is configurable (instead of hardcoded 0.5 second one).
> Will push the patch to mc-devel.
How did you tell ncurses to change timeout value?
notimeout() and wnotimeout() did not work out when I tried it. Delay was
still ~.5 seconds.

Any help aprpeciated.

Sam

My try:

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c
index bf8052f..2b59657 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ int dialog_menu(const char *title, const

dialog = newwin(height, width, y, x);
keypad(dialog, TRUE);
+ wtimeout(dialog, 25);

draw_box(dialog, 0, 0, height, width, dialog_attr, border_attr);
wattrset(dialog, border_attr);
@@ -221,6 +222,7 @@ int dialog_menu(const char *title, const
menu = subwin(dialog, menu_height, menu_width,
y + box_y + 1, x + box_x + 1);
keypad(menu, TRUE);
+ wtimeout(menu, 25);

/* draw a box around the menu items */
draw_box(dialog, box_y, box_x, menu_height + 2, menu_width + 2,
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c
index f82cebb..0973b53 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ void init_dialog(void)
keypad(stdscr, TRUE);
cbreak();
noecho();
-
+ timeout(25);
if (use_colors) /* Set up colors */
color_setup();

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