In a message of Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:06:44 -0400, bruce writes: >Hi. > >Looking over various sites on ncurses. Curious. I see various chunks >of code for creating multiple windows.. But I haven't seen any kind of >example that shows how to 'move' or switch between multiple windows. > >Anyone have any code sample, or any tutorial/site that you could point me to! > >I'm thinking of putting together a simple test to be able to select >between a couple of test windows, select the given field in the >window, and then generate the results in a lower window based on >what's selected.. > >Just curious. Any pointers, greatly appreciated. > >Thanks
I went looking and found this: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/code-project-build-ncurses-ui-python#null but I think you are going to have to believe Eric Raymond when he mentions here: http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-intro.html newterm(type, ofp, ifp) A program which outputs to more than one terminal should use newterm() instead of initscr(). newterm() should be called once for each terminal. It returns a variable of type SCREEN * which should be saved as a reference to that terminal. (NOTE: a SCREEN variable is not a screen in the sense we are describing in this introduction, but a collection of parameters used to assist in optimizing the display.) The arguments are the type of the terminal (a string) and FILE pointers for the output and input of the terminal. If type is NULL then the environment variable $TERM is used. endwin() should called once at wrapup time for each terminal opened using this function. set_term(new) This function is used to switch to a different terminal previously opened by newterm(). The screen reference for the new terminal is passed as the parameter. The previous terminal is returned by the function. All other calls affect only the current terminal. That paper is talking about ncurses and C, but since as far as I know all that the python bindings do is wrap the same things, it should be true there, as well. But I have no working code, so take this with the appropriate amount of salt .... Laura _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
