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From: eddie@festival.ed.ac.uk (Eddie Corns)
Subject: Re: Alternative approach to anims ?? (mostly unix)
References: <Cn6z9F.66G@festival.ed.ac.uk>
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Organization: Edinburgh University
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 23:39:11 GMT
Keywords: animation, curses, unix
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Program as promised.
Compile with
  cc anim.c -lcurses -o anim
seems to work OK on our SYSVish system.

Cut out the rest of this article and save to anim.c

/* anim - create vt100 etc. codes for animation from seperate frames.
 * ORIGINAL (when it was called rep) 
 * Ray Lubinsky University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science 
 *	     uucp: decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!rwl 
 * MODIFIED 3/85 
 * Bruce Karsh, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison.  Dept. of Geophysics. 
 *           uucp: uwvax\!geowhiz\!karsh 
 * Modified 22/2/94 - Eddie
*/

/*
  Quick description.
  Each 'frame' is terminated by a line starting with ^L or ^P or text <<EOP>>
  (see endpage()).
  For ^P it does a pause as well.
  Program copies consecutive lines in each frame to screen.  At end of frame
  the whole screen gets updated.
  Change the number in do_pause() to suit (or add code to read argv[1]).
*/
  

#include <curses.h>

#define	NextLine	fgets(buf,sizeof buf,stdin)

main()
{
	char	buf[BUFSIZ];		/* Buffer holds a line from 'source' */
	int	i;

	initscr();
	crmode();
	nonl();
	clear();
	for (;;) {
		for (i = 0; NextLine != NULL; i++) {
			if (endpage(buf)) break;
			mvaddstr(i,0,buf);
			clrtoeol();
		}
		clrtobot();
		refresh();
		if (buf[0] == '\020') do_pause();
		if (feof(stdin) != 0) break;
	}
/*	clear();*/
	refresh();
	endwin();
}

endpage (line)
  char	*line;
{
	if (line[0] == '\f') return 1;
	if (line[0] == '\020') return 1;
	if (strcmp(line, "<<EOP>>") == 0) return 1;
	return 0;
}

do_pause ()
{
	int	i;
	for (i = 0; i < 40000; i++) putchar ('\0');
}