The code for handling window resizing isn't jumping out at
me but I'll keep looking.
(...jumping out, rather unexpectedly!)
You might be interested in an ongoing discussion that I and Grant Edwards are
holding in this newsgroup on the subject Best way of finding terminal
width/height?.
On 2006-02-08, Ian Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think there are enough escape sequences common to all modern terminals
so that I can build a generic curses-replacement for my library.
Why not use termcap/terminfo?
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Grant Edwards grante Yow! Where does it
Grant Edwards wrote:
Why not use termcap/terminfo?
That's a good idea, but I'd have to wrap the c library myself, wouldn't
I? Also, what happens when a user has an incorrect TERM setting (I've
run into this before)
I don't want to reimpliment all the nice speed optimizations that the
curses
On 2006-02-08, Ian Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
Why not use termcap/terminfo?
That's a good idea, but I'd have to wrap the c library myself,
wouldn't I?
Probably. I don't remember seeing a python module for them.
Also, what happens when a user has an incorrect TERM
Grant Edwards wrote:
Depending on what you're tring to do, slang might be an option,
I've looked at newt and snack, but all I really need is:
- a way to position the cursor at (0,0)
- a way to hide and show the cursor
- a way to detect when the terminal is resized
- a way to query the terminal
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:10:26 -0500, Ian Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
Depending on what you're tring to do, slang might be an option,
I've looked at newt and snack, but all I really need is:
- a way to position the cursor at (0,0)
- a way to hide and show the cursor
- a way
Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
I've looked at newt and snack, but all I really need is:
- a way to position the cursor at (0,0)
- a way to hide and show the cursor
- a way to detect when the terminal is resized
- a way to query the terminal size
You might be interested in Twisted Conch's
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Ian Ward wrote:
Any Ideas?
I think there is one or more ncurses bugs somewhere.
The ncurses documentation suggests that you should link with
ncurses_w instead of linking with ncurses - you might try
that as well. If it helps, please do report back.
Ultimately,
