Support for Windows about qark HOT 10 CLOSED

We only currently support OSX and Ubuntu Linux (Other versions of Linux may work, but are not supported). For now, we recommend running it in a VM if you are on Windows.

We are working on making QARK cross compatible across OSX/Linux/Windows.

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I have been looking into what is required to do this. It looks like the entire terminal subsystem assumes you have curses, termios, fctl, and tty support and this leads to some significant issues when it comes with Windows.

Since if I contribute code to help this process along I would like it to be incorporated in the main project I figure it is worth asking first if any approach has been decided on. If not it seems like either the blessed/* modules would need to be rewritten or a separate Windows implementation of related funtionality would need to be added.

Any thoughts before I begin?

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Ok lookig at the code more, it looks like the plan was to use colorama libraries (included in the code tree) to get this to work? I notice there is no real effort to integrate it into the actual terminal subsystem yet. so that looks like the way to go.

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@einhverfr , sorry for the delayed response. We're not currently working on Windows support, so please, by all means contribute this!

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Thanks!

My current approach is to require pdcurses for Windows, and then to wrap some of the Posix terminal capacity in porting layers. It isn't clear to me whether on top of this, colorama, etc, is actually required. I hope to know more in a few days.

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With PR #26 Qark runs well enough to find platform specific problems. It is not good enough I would advertise Windows support just yet but it is good enough that people who want to help can get going and try to make things work.

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As a note on Pr #26 and this issue. I am still having a few issues. I think the Windows support for the python-pdcurses wrapper may be incomplete enough to pose some usability issues.

I am having some issues setting up the android sdk. I think this is a Windows-specific multi-processing I/O issue. I expect to have this fixed in some way this week.

However with that PR, the software loads and completes the static analysis despite the UI issues.

I am currently looking into how to resolve the above two issues. However, code feedback, if the PR is not acceptable would be helpful.

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PR #26 is now about as far as I feel comfortable taking it without further review and hopefullly acceptance.

There is one final UI issue that occurs that I know of but fixing it is likely to be something that needs to be thought about on its own. The problem is that things are done in a very POSIX-y way which is semantically incompatible with the way Windows consoles work.

So please review it. I am happy to make whatever changes are needed to get it accepted.

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We have just pushed a new version of QARK that solves a lot of problems and enhances the code.

As a result we will be closing out all tickets for the older version since we no longer support it. If this issue persists in the new version please create a new ticket.

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I thought I'd let you know that blessed supports windows directly, I see your tree is just an old copy that has been customized to support windows, that's fine too, just thought you'd like to know this was solved upstream and there is no need to fork.

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