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Frequently Asked Questions

What is FINAL CUT?

The Final Cut is a C++ class library and a widget toolkit with full mouse support for creating a text-based user interface. It's based on the Termcap library and has its own cursor optimization and window management.

Are Windows and DOS supported by FINAL CUT?

You need an operating system environment that implements a POSIX system call API. This can be realized in Windows with the Cygwin project.

Is my platform supported?

The supported platforms are Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, Cygwin on Microsoft Windows and Oracle Solaris

What do I need to write my own programs with FINAL CUT?

You need a C++ compiler like GCC (g++) or Clang (clang++).

What do I need to build this library?

You need three things:

  1. C++ compiler like GCC (g++) or Clang (clang++).

  2. The GNU building tools

    For example, in a Debian-based distribution it would be the following packages:

    • autotools-dev
    • automake
    • autoconf
    • autoconf-archive
    • libtool

  3. Development packages for following libraries:

    • C standard library
    • C++ standard library
    • Termcap library (mostly part of the curses library)
    • General Purpose Mouse library (optional, only if you need mouse support on the Linux console)

    For example, in a Debian-based distribution it would be the following packages:

    • libglib2.0-dev
    • libstdc++-6-dev
    • libtinfo-dev
    • libncurses5-dev
    • libgpm-dev

How to compile FINAL CUT without gpm support?

  ./configure --without-gpm

What do I need to compile the unit tests?

You need the unit testing framework CppUnit.

How can I fix display problems?

  • Make sure that the environment variable TERM has the right terminal name.

  • With the command "msgcat --color=test" you can test whether the colors are displayed correctly in the terminal

  • If characters are not displayed in the right place on the screen, it may help to disable cursor optimization for your program with the parameter --no-optimized-cursor.

  • If terminal detection did not work, it is useful to turn off the terminal detection with the parameter --no-terminal-detection.

  • If the color palette redefinition causes problems, you can switch off the color mapping with the parameter --no-color-change.