curses for different terminals

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:39:14 +0200, rumours say that harold fellermann
<harold.fellermann at upf.edu> might have written:

>Hi all,

>I want to use curses in a server application that provides a GUI for 
>telnet clients. Therefore, I need the functionality to open and handle 
>several
>screens.

Just to make sure we understand what you want to do:

1. Are you doing an single process application that produces output on
many terminals?  ie the program is kind of like a service?

2. Are you doing an application with one session per terminal?  ie a
user starts your app in every terminal, no multi-term output from a
single process.

3. Are you doing an application that runs on one terminal but with many
"virtual" sessions (or screens), kind of like the `screen(1)` program or
the behaviour of the linux or Novell console?

>Concerning 
>http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses-intro.html#init
>this can be done using the function newterm(type,ofp,ifp). However, this
>function seems not to be defined in the python library. Does anyone know
>how this can be done in python?

Select one of the above, or describe more the desired situation if I
didn't cover your case, and we will try to help you more.

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