Jeremy Moles wrote: >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Jeremy Moles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>I have a focus "wheel" of sorts that allows the user to do input on >>>various wigets and windows and whatnot. However, if I want to quickly >>>call addstr somewhere else in the application I have to: >>> >>> 1. Store the YX coords of the cursor currently >>> 2. Use the cursor in the "current" action >>> 3. Restore the old cursor location >>>
> > All of the routines I can find in the ncurses library want to take > control of the "cursor" object. That is: they either want to advance > it's position (addstr) or not (addchstr), but they both certainly grab > "control" of it; at least, visually. > > Basically what I'm looking for is a way to refresh a portion of a > curses-controlled "window" without affecting the current location of the > cursor or having to manually move it and move it back. Why not wrap your 1-3 in a function of your own? More generally, build a 'cursor location stack', probably using a list. Add utility functions push_cur and pop_cur to push and pop the current location of the cursor from that stack (pop_cur actually resets the current cursor location for future printing). Then your "write over there" becomes: push_cur() move_cursor(location) write(text) pop_cur() which can be pretty easily wrapped in a single function. Mind you, I don't use curses myself, but what would prevent this from working? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
