Error in curses call during disable-raw-input

[MatthewRock]

uname -a :

Linux Haskell 4.0.5-gentoo #8 SMP Wed Aug 5 23:26:20 CEST 2015 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Condition:

Error in curses call.
   [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]

  0: (CL-CHARMS::CHECK-STATUS -1)
      Locals:
        SB-DEBUG::ARG-0 = -1
  1: (CL-CHARMS:DISABLE-RAW-INPUT)
      [No Locals]
  2: (CL-CHARMS:ENABLE-RAW-INPUT :INTERPRET-CONTROL-CHARACTERS T)
      Locals:
        #:INTERPRET-CONTROL-CHARACTERS-DEFAULTING-TEMP = T
  3: (CHARMS-TIMER:MAIN)

Problem:

When I compiled cl-charms, I wanted to see if it works. I installed and tried to run timer or paint; however, in every example I get this very meaningful error message and, as you can see, it hangs on disable-raw-input; However, I have other applications using ncurses that are working just fine. I'm not really sure what to do with this. Right now I'm tired and I just want to send this error report; after reviewing, please let me know what information should I provide.

[glider-gun]

Seems curses library function itself is failing. Where did you run examples from?

If you ran them from SLIME or so, calling curses library functions will fail, because it's not a terminal which curses can handle. If this applies, running it from terminal will resolve this problem. Then if you want slime repl, I do like following (its my own way, though),

1. run sbcl from terminal
2. (ql:quickload '(:swank) :silent t) ;; from terminal
3. (swank:create-server :port 5555 :style :fd-handler :dont-close t) ;; from terminal, too
4. go to emacs and M-x slime-connect RET localhost RET 5555 RET
5. (ql:quickload :cl-charms-timer) ;; from emacs repl
6. (charms-timer:main) ;; from emacs repl Now you should see timer running on terminal.

step 1. to 3. can be done as an one liner: sbcl --eval "(ql:quickload '(:swank) :silent t)" --eval "(swank:create-server :port 5555 :style :fd-handler :dont-close t)"

[MatthewRock]

So glad you answered. Thanks, that's right - it works perfectly. I will fork the project and add it to some README or examples, so that other people won't get WTF as I did. Thanks a lot once again!

[stylewarning]

@MatthewRock, any additional documentation on this would certainly be appreciated! Thanks for reporting your issues.