> I got the screen clearing bit no problem, thanks for that one. I'm > still > not used to being able to just use c libraries.
Even the C libraries are non standard - they aren't part of the ANSI C definition. Its just that C libraries for the PC know what the hardware will look like so they can provide screen manipulation routines. But that code will be completely non-portable to any other computing platform. And even between C vendors the screen calls can be completely different. For example my MIX compiler uses cls() to clear the screen, My Borland one uses ClrScr() and I think that Microsoft Visual C uses something else again. Similarly for positioning the cursor, MIX uses curscol(), cursrow() whereas the Borland one uses gotoXY() - I think, its been a while! > a fascination with linux terminals being able to draw progress bars > or > "busy" animations and figured I'd have a little fun. :] I came > across > "curses" which looks to be included in activepython so that might be > of > some use for my linux programming. There is an old curses module for DOS somewhere but I never got it working and it didn't implement all the functions.. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
