Public Domain Curses
| Public Domain Curses | |
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| Name | PDcurses |
| Version | 3.6 (Feb 2018) |
| Vendor | |
| Author | Mark Hessling (Original author) William McBrine (Current maintainer) |
| Licence | Public domain |
| WWW | http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/ |
Public Domain Curses (PDcurses) is a public domain curses library.
What differentiates PD Curses from other such systems is that instead of keeping a database or a list of available and possible screen modes PD Curses uses a driver system which keeps it lighter on resources. In addition to supporting OS/2 and MS Windows natively and all UNIX like system via an implementation that binds to an X11 server, the PDC library has also been ported to SDL and can therefore be used or ported easily with any system that has a C compiler and an SDL implementation.
Version
- 2.0 (Nov 1992)
- 2.1 (Jun 1993) - OS/2 DLL support
- 2.2 (Feb 1995) - emx 0.9a support
- 2.3 (Jul 1998) - support for Watcom C++ under OS/2, Win32 and DOS
- 2.4 (Jan 2000) - native clipboard support for X11, Win32 and OS/2
- 2.5 (Nov 2001)
- 2.6 (Jan 2003)
- 2.7 (Dec 2005)
- 2.8 (Apr 2006)
- 3.0 (Apr 2007) - Mouse support for DOS and OS/2
Available in source form only, but with full OS/2 support
- 3.2 (Jun 2007)
- 3.3 (Jul 2007)
- 3.4 (Sep 2008)
- 3.5 (Jan 2018) - Dropped support for Microsoft C for DOS, IBM C Set/2, building DLLs with EMX
- 3.6 (Feb 2018)
- 3.7 (Dec 2018)
- 3.8 (Feb 2019)
- 3.9 (Sep 2019)