Ncurses and Linux pipeline

Question

I\'d like to write a simple program using ncurses for displaying some data. I would then like for the program to write to stdout in such a way that I can then use a pipe (|

Answer 1

By default, curses writes to the standard output, which is where your pipe goes. But there are two different initialization functions for curses: initscr and newterm. The latter lets you do what was asked, like this:

#include 
#include 


int main(int _argc, char ** _argv)
{
    newterm(NULL, stderr, stdin);          /* Start curses mode          */    
    printw("Hello World !!!");  /* Print Hello World          */    
    refresh();          /* Print it on to the real screen */    
    getch();            /* Wait for user input */    
    printf("GOT HERE");    
    endwin();           /* End curses mode        */    
    printf("GOT HERE");    
    return 0;
}

Further reading: manual page for newterm and initscr.