1 /* Just a simple example program that creates a terminal in a frame
2 * and lets the user interact with it.
5 * gcc -o boxshell boxshell.c $(rote-config --cflags --libs)
12 #include <madtty/madtty.h>
14 static unsigned char getout = 0;
15 void sigchld(int signo) { getout = 1; }
16 int my_custom_handler(RoteTerm *rt, const char *es);
18 int screen_w, screen_h;
25 signal(SIGCHLD, sigchld);
31 nodelay(stdscr, TRUE); /* prevents getch() from blocking; rather
32 * it will return ERR when there is no
33 * keypress available */
35 keypad(stdscr, TRUE); /* necessary to use rote_vt_keypress */
36 getmaxyx(stdscr, screen_h, screen_w);
38 /* initialize the color pairs the way rote_vt_draw expects it. You might
39 * initialize them differently, but in that case you would need
40 * to supply a custom conversion function for rote_vt_draw to
41 * call when setting attributes. The idea of this "default" mapping
42 * is to map (fg,bg) to the color pair bg * 8 + 7 - fg. This way,
43 * the pair (white,black) ends up mapped to 0, which means that
44 * it does not need a color pair (since it is the default). Since
45 * there are only 63 available color pairs (and 64 possible fg/bg
46 * combinations), we really have to save 1 pair by assigning no pair
47 * to the combination white/black. */
48 for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) for (j = 0; j < 8; j++)
50 init_pair(j*8+7-i, i, j);
52 /* paint the screen blue */
53 attrset(COLOR_PAIR(32));
54 for (i = 0; i < screen_h; i++) for (j = 0; j < screen_w; j++) addch(' ');
57 /* create a window with a frame */
58 term_win = newwin(22,72,1,4);
59 wattrset(term_win, COLOR_PAIR(7*8+7-0)); /* black over white */
60 wborder(term_win, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
61 mvwprintw(term_win, 0, 27, " Term In a Box ");
64 /* create the terminal and have it run bash */
65 rt = rote_vt_create(20, 70);
66 rote_vt_forkpty(rt, "/bin/bash --login");
68 /* add a sample custom escape sequence handler... say we want to handle
69 * the sequence, say, \e{N}, which will change the application's background
70 * color to N (where N is a number between 0 and 7). */
71 rote_vt_install_handler(rt, my_custom_handler);
73 /* keep reading keypresses from the user and passing them to the terminal;
74 * also, redraw the terminal to the window at each iteration */
77 rote_vt_draw(rt, term_win, 1, 1, NULL);
82 rote_vt_keypress(rt, ch); /* pass the keypress for handling */
90 int my_custom_handler(RoteTerm *rt, const char *es) {
94 /* if the escape sequence does not begin with '{', we give up */
95 if (*es != '{') return ROTE_HANDLERESULT_NOWAY;
97 /* ok, now we know it begins with '{'. Now, if it does not end with '}',
98 * it is not yet complete */
99 if (es[strlen(es)-1] != '}') return ROTE_HANDLERESULT_NOTYET;
101 /* ok, the sequence is complete */
102 color = atoi(es + 1);
103 if (color < 0 || color > 7) return false; /* don't recognize it */
105 /* paint the background with that color */
106 attrset(COLOR_PAIR(color * 8));
108 for (i = 0; i < screen_h; i++) for (j = 0; j < screen_w; j++) addch(' ');
112 /* touch term_win to force it to do a full redraw next time */
115 /* and redraw the terminal window */
118 /* escape sequence was handled ok */
119 return ROTE_HANDLERESULT_OK;