Use ASCII control codes to hide cursor at the pacman start and then show the cursor when pacman finishes.
It helps to avoid annoying blinking when progress bars are re-drawn. Cursor is reenabled if pacman expects user's input. Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <[email protected]> --- src/pacman/pacman.c | 2 ++ src/pacman/sighandler.c | 4 ++++ src/pacman/util.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- src/pacman/util.h | 6 ++++++ 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/pacman/pacman.c b/src/pacman/pacman.c index d58c428a..fefd3fa4 100644 --- a/src/pacman/pacman.c +++ b/src/pacman/pacman.c @@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ static void cleanup(int ret) /* free memory */ FREELIST(pm_targets); + console_cursor_show(); exit(ret); } @@ -1084,6 +1085,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) int ret = 0; uid_t myuid = getuid(); + console_cursor_hide(); install_segv_handler(); /* i18n init */ diff --git a/src/pacman/sighandler.c b/src/pacman/sighandler.c index 46e6481f..fc4ea766 100644 --- a/src/pacman/sighandler.c +++ b/src/pacman/sighandler.c @@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ static void soft_interrupt_handler(int signum) const char msg[] = "\nHangup signal received\n"; xwrite(STDERR_FILENO, msg, ARRAYSIZE(msg) - 1); } + xwrite(STDOUT_FILENO, CURSOR_SHOW_ANSICODE, + sizeof(CURSOR_SHOW_ANSICODE) - 1); if(alpm_trans_interrupt(config->handle) == 0) { /* a transaction is being interrupted, don't exit pacman yet. */ return; @@ -95,6 +97,8 @@ static void segv_handler(int signum) const char msg[] = "\nerror: segmentation fault\n" "Please submit a full bug report with --debug if appropriate.\n"; xwrite(STDERR_FILENO, msg, sizeof(msg) - 1); + xwrite(STDOUT_FILENO, CURSOR_SHOW_ANSICODE, + sizeof(CURSOR_SHOW_ANSICODE) - 1); /* restore the default handler */ _reset_handler(signum); diff --git a/src/pacman/util.c b/src/pacman/util.c index a640ffb4..a3a85bb9 100644 --- a/src/pacman/util.c +++ b/src/pacman/util.c @@ -1391,6 +1391,27 @@ static int multiselect_parse(char *array, int count, char *response) return 0; } +void console_cursor_hide(void) { + if(isatty(fileno(stdout))) { + printf(CURSOR_HIDE_ANSICODE); + } +} + +void console_cursor_show(void) { + if(isatty(fileno(stdout))) { + printf(CURSOR_SHOW_ANSICODE); + } +} + +char *safe_fgets_stdin(char *s, int size) +{ + char *result; + console_cursor_show(); + result = safe_fgets(s, size, stdin); + console_cursor_hide(); + return result; +} + int multiselect_question(char *array, int count) { char *response, *lastchar; @@ -1427,7 +1448,7 @@ int multiselect_question(char *array, int count) flush_term_input(fileno(stdin)); - if(safe_fgets(response, response_len, stdin)) { + if(safe_fgets_stdin(response, response_len)) { const size_t response_incr = 64; size_t len; /* handle buffer not being large enough to read full line case */ @@ -1443,8 +1464,8 @@ int multiselect_question(char *array, int count) lastchar = response + response_len - 1; /* sentinel byte */ *lastchar = 1; - if(safe_fgets(response + response_len - response_incr - 1, - response_incr + 1, stdin) == 0) { + if(safe_fgets_stdin(response + response_len - response_incr - 1, + response_incr + 1) == 0) { free(response); return -1; } @@ -1494,7 +1515,7 @@ int select_question(int count) flush_term_input(fileno(stdin)); - if(safe_fgets(response, sizeof(response), stdin)) { + if(safe_fgets_stdin(response, sizeof(response))) { size_t len = strtrim(response); if(len > 0) { int n; @@ -1582,7 +1603,7 @@ static int question(short preset, const char *format, va_list args) flush_term_input(fd_in); - if(safe_fgets(response, sizeof(response), stdin)) { + if(safe_fgets_stdin(response, sizeof(response))) { size_t len = strtrim(response); if(len == 0) { return preset; diff --git a/src/pacman/util.h b/src/pacman/util.h index 2cee479f..2b21f3d5 100644 --- a/src/pacman/util.h +++ b/src/pacman/util.h @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ #include "util-common.h" +#define CURSOR_HIDE_ANSICODE "\x1B[?25l" +#define CURSOR_SHOW_ANSICODE "\x1B[?25h" + #ifdef ENABLE_NLS #include <libintl.h> /* here so it doesn't need to be included elsewhere */ /* define _() as shortcut for gettext() */ @@ -77,6 +80,9 @@ int colon_printf(const char *format, ...) __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2))); int yesno(const char *format, ...) __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2))); int noyes(const char *format, ...) __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2))); char *arg_to_string(int argc, char *argv[]); +char *safe_fgets_stdin(char *s, int size); +void console_cursor_hide(void); +void console_cursor_show(void); int pm_printf(alpm_loglevel_t level, const char *format, ...) __attribute__((format(printf,2,3))); int pm_asprintf(char **string, const char *format, ...) __attribute__((format(printf,2,3))); -- 2.25.1
