Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First, make it work. Then make it work right. Then worry
> about how fast it is.
> "Premature optimization..."
That could be - but then again, most of the comments I've seen for that
particular issue are for rather old releases.
>> It seems to use a
linuxfreak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Was wanting to write a text based application in python seems
> curses module is the way to go... anyone knows of any good tutorials
> apart from the one written by esr
It wasn't written by esr. He only has his name on it, did none of the work.
--
Tho
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ncurses expects byte strings (although I'm uncertain as to what
> impact multi-byte encodings have in ncurses).
It depends on whether python's curses binding is linked with the wide-character
flavor (ncursesw) or the normal one. If it's linked with
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>>ncurses expects byte strings (although I'm uncertain as to what
>>>impact multi-byte encodings have in ncurses).
>>
>>
>> It depends on whether python's curses
Simon Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd also appreciate any pointers to good tutorials on curses, I've read
> the one by awk and esr but found it rather brief and lacking in detail.
esr only contributed his name - awk wrote the rest.
(When I asked why, he only said it sounded like a good id
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm having no success building the curses module on Solaris 8 (yes, I know
> it's ancient - advancing the state-of-the-art is not yet an option) for
> Python 2.4. Sun provides an apparently ancient version of curses in
> /usr/lib, so I downloaded and installed ncurses 5
Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> dialog binary is 110 KB. Won't it fit ?
> missing library. I have ncurses and newt and dialog seems to require
> something called ncursesw. I've been trying to find the Python newt
"seems to require" if you're install
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ian Ward wrote:
>> Any Ideas?
> I think there is one or more ncurses bugs somewhere.
indeed. It might be nice to report them rather than jawing about it.
> The ncurses documentation suggests that you should link with
> ncurses_w instead of linking
Ian Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've had to work around many curses issues while developing Urwid (a
hmm - I've read Urwid, and most of the comments I've read in that regard
reflect problems in Urwid. Perhaps it's time for you to do a little analysis.
(looking forward to bug reports, rat
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'll test it if someone would dumb down "link with ncursesw instead of
>> ncurses" a little for me.
>>
>> I tried:
>> ./configure --with-libs="ncursesw5"
>>
>> and it failed saying:
>> checking size of wchar_t... configure: error: cannot compute siz
Ian Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> If that was Python's configure: don't do that. Instead, hack setup.py
>> to make it change the compiler/linker settings, or even edit the
>> compiler/linker line manually at first.
> Ok, that compiled.
same here - though it was not
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Depending on what you're tring to do, slang might be an option,
perhaps not - he's trying to use UTF-8. I haven't seen any plausible
comment that indicates John Davis is interested in updating newt to
work with slang2 (though of course he's welcome to s
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
> - a way to detect when the term
Ian Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> hmm - I've read Urwid, and most of the comments I've read in that regard
>> reflect problems in Urwid. Perhaps it's time for you to do a little
>> analysis.
>>
>> (looking for
Ian Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm going to look at the Mined text editor for some terminal behavior
mined_2000 (there's more than one program named mined, and the other
doesn't do UTF-8).
> detection code. Mined is able to produce good UTF-8 output on a variety
> of terminals, and it li
Ian Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - New raw_display module that handles console display without relying
> on external libraries. This module was written as a work around
> for the lack of UTF-8 support in the standard version of ncurses.
The "standard version" of ncurses has support
Miki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (You can find lynx at http://lynx.browser.org/)
not exactly -
The current version of lynx is 2.8.6
It's available at
http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.6/
2.8.7 Development & patches:
http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://i
Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't really expect it to work, but if anything will, that is
> it. Curses supports only ASCII and a some special symbol codes
> defined by curses.
un - no. Curses supports whatever the flavor of curses you have does.
Often that's the 8-bit flavor of n
Fabrice DELENTE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My system is Linux, and the distribution is Slackware 10.1.
> I have
> /lib/libncurses.so.5.4
> /lib/libncursesw.so.5.4
> so I even have the wide-chars version available. Any hint on the python
> configuration? I didn't find any function that would al
Nick ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://web.cs.mun.ca/~rod/ncurses/ncurses.html#xterm says "The ncurses
> library does not catch [the SIGWINCH aka resizing] signal, because it
> cannot in general know how you want the screen re-painted". First, is
> this really true? When I make my xterms small
On Aug 20, 6:12 pm, Iñigo Serna wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> 2009/8/20 Iñigo Serna
> > I have the same problem mentioned
> > inhttp://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/...some
> > months ago.
>
> > Python 2.6 program which usesncursesmodule in a terminal configured to use
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Iñigo Serna wrote:
2009/8/21 Thomas Dickey :
On Aug 20, 6:12 pm, Iñigo Serna wrote:
c = win.getch()
You're using "getch", not "get_wch" (Python's ncurses binding may/may
not have the latter).
curses getch returns 8-bit values, get
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