Ross Ridge wrote:
In general it's impossible to know how many display positions some
random Unicode character might use. For example, Chinese characters
normally take two display positions, but the terminal your using might
not support them and display a single width replacement character.
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?.
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 links
Ian Ward wrote:
I'll have to deal with that anyway, since I'm doing all my own wrapping,
justification and clipping of text.
In general it's impossible to know how many display positions some
random Unicode character might use. For example, Chinese characters
normally take two display
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,
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 it
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 forward to bug reports, rather than line noise)
A fair request. My appologies for the inflammatory subject
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
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 incorrect TERM
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
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
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 terminal is
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 forward to bug reports, rather than line noise)
A fair request. My
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ian Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Also, screen resizing only seems to be reported once by getch() even if
the user continues to resize the window. I have worked around this by
calling curses.doupdate() between calls
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
- a way
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 Conch's
Ross Ridge wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
...and send UTF-8 text, keeping track of where you really are on the screen.
You make that sound so easy.
I'll have to deal with that anyway, since I'm doing all my own wrapping,
justification and clipping of text. (don't talk to me about RtoL text,
I'm
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.
Ultimately,
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