curses bkgd problem
Gandalf
gandalf at geochemsource.com
Tue Mar 9 03:03:27 EST 2004
Gandalf wrote:
> stdscr = curses.initscr() # Get standard screen
> curses.start_color() # Uses colors
> stdscr.bkgd(' ',curses.COLOR_BLUE ) # Set background of the main window
> curses.noecho() # Do not echo input
> curses.cbreak() # CBreak mode: process keys immediately (no
> ENTER)
> stdscr.keypad(1) # keypad mode: parse control sequences
> stdscr.redrawwin()
> stdscr.refresh()
>
> However, it is displaying $ characters in black instead of displaying
> a blue background full of spaces.
> This must be a problem with my bkgd call since this works fine:
>
> curses.init_pair(1, curses.COLOR_RED, curses.COLOR_WHITE)
> stdscr.addstr(0, 0, curses.longname(), curses.color_pair(1) )
> stdscr.refresh()
>
Now I'm doing this:
def clrscr():
global stdscr
(maxy,maxx) = stdscr.getmaxyx()
line = ' ' * (maxx-1)
for row in range(maxy):
stdscr.addstr(row, 0, line, curses.color_pair(1) )
which works fine except that the right side of the screen is still black.
It is a very clumsy solution. Any ideas?
G
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