On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Thomas Ballinger <[email protected]> wrote: > That sounds about like how I'm doing it - the application has the whole > screen to write, but if it only uses the top, the terminal wrapper doesn't > touch everything below. > > You may have gotten as far as I have - I haven't done a ton of testing with > different terminals. I don't recall having trouble with writing a full line > at the bottom, but I think I never write newlines - I just go to the next > line and keep writing. > > I sent the first email to the list, but it was 11 months ago :) Perhaps I > hadn't signed up for the list yet? I probably sent it right after signing > up.
You sent the email successfully to the list: I have it. It must be a problem with Ian's computer. ;) -- Devin > Tom > > > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Ian Ward <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Ian Ward <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Absolutely >> > >> > I started work in this direction with raw_display but never quite >> > finished. >> >> In particular, the way I started to implement this feature was to have >> the user set alternate_buffer=False when raw_display.Screen.start() >> and then when the application didn't draw on the lower portion of the >> screen (left it as blank space with the default display attributes) >> then that many rows of the original screen would be left intact above >> where the urwid application was drawing. >> >> I ran into trouble with the way different terminals handled >> positioning the cursor after a newline. I couldn't use absolute >> positioning any more because I didn't know if the screen had scrolled. >> I'm interested to look at your solution. >> >> I also wonder why I missed your first email. Was it sent to this list? >> >> Ian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Urwid mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.excess.org/mailman/listinfo/urwid > > > > _______________________________________________ > Urwid mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.excess.org/mailman/listinfo/urwid > _______________________________________________ Urwid mailing list [email protected] http://lists.excess.org/mailman/listinfo/urwid
