On 8/4/2014 11:00 AM, Wiktor wrote:
Yes, I'd like to make text game, that looks like window-based, with popup boxes, inactive windows grayed out and all this stuff. And all this running on standard console window (cmd.exe).
Your problem doing this is that cmd.exe is not a standard since 30 years ago full-screen console window, , but is intentionally crippled to stop people from doing what you are trying to do. Some as MS would like to delete it altogether.
I'm not starting from scratch. I'm using packages 'termcolor', 'colorama' and 'colorconsole' -
All on pypi.python.org, I see. > they provide functions to print text at desired
position on screen, and change color of foreground/background of this text. With those packages I already developed some classes that allow me to construct some simple menus for my console programs. Short demo of silly program calculating degree of n-th root: http://youtu.be/V8ilLhHAT_k
I am impressed with what the authors of those packages managed to do.
I'm taking next step, so I tried to draw nice frame around menu (that's why I posted yesterday).
Is there no working codepage with ascii text and the line chars? I suppose I am not surprised if not.
Next step would be to manage those widgets to draw one over another, to keep track which one window opens which, and when the other window must be closed and when only grayed out. At this point I still don't know how to do this right, but I'm thinking about this very hard. :-) Probably one day I'll ask it here, if I don't figure it out. :-)
You may have to settle for using different background colors to delineate different boxes.
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