Re: Replacing curses (Was: Re: Problem with curses and UTF-8)

2006-02-09 Thread Joel Hedlund
> 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?".

Re: Replacing curses (Was: Re: Problem with curses and UTF-8)

2006-02-08 Thread Ian Ward
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 Co

Re: Replacing curses (Was: Re: Problem with curses and UTF-8)

2006-02-08 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
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

Re: Replacing curses (Was: Re: Problem with curses and UTF-8)

2006-02-08 Thread Ian Ward
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 s

Re: Replacing curses (Was: Re: Problem with curses and UTF-8)

2006-02-08 Thread Grant Edwards
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 incorrec

Re: Replacing curses (Was: Re: Problem with curses and UTF-8)

2006-02-08 Thread Ian Ward
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

Re: Replacing curses (Was: Re: Problem with curses and UTF-8)

2006-02-08 Thread Grant Edwards
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? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Where does

Replacing curses (Was: Re: Problem with curses and UTF-8)

2006-02-07 Thread Ian Ward
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.