Module/lib for controlling a terminal program using redrawing?

2015-03-14 Thread Jason Heeris
I am trying to automate the use of some old, in-house terminal-based programs that use screen redrawing for their interface. This includes single line redrawing (eg. using '\r' and overwriting), complete screen clearing, and fine-grained cursor movement and overwriting (probably not all in the same

Re: Module/lib for controlling a terminal program using redrawing?

2015-03-14 Thread Jason Heeris
Yes, Paul Rubin had it right: I hadn't thought of the term "screen scraper," but that might help my searching. On 15 March 2015 at 05:50, Terry Reedy wrote: > > Perhaps you can use the guts of a terminal emulation program, removing the part that displays the interpreted stream (a 24 x 80 array) o

Re: Python+Glade+Gtk tutorial?

2015-03-16 Thread Jason Heeris
Warning: I'm only going to answer half of your questions :) I haven't built any GTK2/3 app in a while, but hopefully others here can address your other questions (although you might have better luck on the Python/GTK mailing list when it comes to finding a good tutorial, etc.) On 17 March 2015 at