X-Git-Url: https://git.nikiroo.be/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=ff50ca75cb53c315fd3d727e4b24b02e2d855759;hb=f6d9020703931f645f553b59426e085a81e90c60;hp=1e61a77c39346de09ba1ee75bb5f4082c4c49f64;hpb=d79f1f31b1c036712b4e7f0bbfde980f212c3a3a;p=fanfix.git diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1e61a77..ff50ca7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Jexer currently supports three backends: Additional backends can be created by subclassing jexer.backend.Backend and passing it into the TApplication -constructor. +constructor. See Demo5 and Demo6 for examples of other backends. The Jexer homepage, which includes additional information and binary release downloads, is at: https://jexer.sourceforge.io . The Jexer @@ -205,6 +205,11 @@ Some arbitrary design decisions had to be made when either the obviously expected behavior did not happen or when a specification was ambiguous. This section describes such issues. + - The JVM needs some warmup time to exhibit the true performance + behavior. Drag a window around for a bit to see this: the initial + performance is slow, then the JIT compiler kicks in and Jexer can + be visually competitive with C/C++ curses applications. + - See jexer.tterminal.ECMA48 for more specifics of terminal emulation limitations. @@ -222,6 +227,11 @@ ambiguous. This section describes such issues. - Closing a TTerminalWindow without exiting the process inside it may result in a zombie 'script' process. + - TTerminalWindow cannot notify the child process of changes in + window size, due to Java's lack of support for forkpty() and + similar. Solving this requires C, and will be pursued only if + sufficient user requests come in. + - Java's InputStreamReader as used by the ECMA48 backend requires a valid UTF-8 stream. The default X10 encoding for mouse coordinates outside (160,94) can corrupt that stream, at best