Chris Hengge wrote: > Thanks for the details, I see several code bits I'll have to play with. > > I got the screen clearing bit no problem, thanks for that one. I'm still > not used to being able to just use c libraries.
The ctypes module lets you call functions in shared libraries. It is standard in Python 2.5 or available from http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/ > > I don't actually have a need to draw the cursor all over the screen for > any practical application either personal or work, but I've got a bit of > a fascination with linux terminals being able to draw progress bars or > "busy" animations and figured I'd have a little fun. :] I came across > "curses" which looks to be included in activepython so that might be of > some use for my linux programming. Here is a progress bar: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/299207 You also might look at urwid though it doesn't seem to run on Windows: http://excess.org/urwid/ Unfortunately I don't think there is a console library that works on both Windows and Linux. For portable (and more functional) UIs you are better off learning Tkinter or wxPython. Kent > > Thanks again. > > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:44 +0100, Alan Gauld wrote: >> Replying to the List.... >> >> The trick is to know either that Fred works at Pythonware, >> or that his nickname is the effbot... :-) >> >> http://effbot.org/downloads/ >> >> Sorry, neither are intuitively obvious... but he has lots of goodies >> on his site, worth perusing the list. And Fred's code is usually >> of a very high standard - ie it just works! >> >> Alan Gauld >> Author of the Learn to Program web site >> http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Chris Hengge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 5:25 AM >> Subject: Re: Looking for a few commands >> >> >>> Where is Fred's site? lol... I've been looking for it and not >>> finding >>> anything like this. >>> >>>> Finally Fred Lundh has a console library that tries to pull all >>>> this >>>> together into a single platform independant module, but its not a >>>> standard library module(yet) and you have to download it from >>>> Fred's >>>> site. >>>> >>>> Frankly if I need to do detailed screen manipulation in Python I >>>> usually >>>> just bite the bullet and build a GUI - its easier. >>>> >>>> HTH, >>>> >>>> Alan Gauld >>>> Author of the Learn to Program web site >>>> http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld >>>> > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
