id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc difficulty 1435 getstr function in ncurses egg andrea felix winkelmann "Hi, I'm not expert about Chicken Scheme and easyffi, so I tried to read the source of the ncurses egg but I did not come up with it. I'm using Chicken 4.13 and the last version of the egg (i.e. 1.6) installed with ""chicken-install ncurses"". The problem is this: {{{ (require-extension ncurses) (let ((stdscr (initscr)) (str (make-string 10))) (getstr str) (addstr str) (getch)) }}} The error is this: {{{ Error: bad argument type - not a pointer: "" "" }}} It has been a similar problem: https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/158#no2 but it says that it has been solved now (but I still obtain an error, different from the one mentioned). " defect closed not urgent at all someday extensions 4.13.0 wontfix ncurses easy