Curses sorely lacking an event loop?

[James Stroud]

Michele Simionato wrote:
> On Feb 27, 1:27 pm, James Stroud <jstr... at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is curses really lacking an event loop? Do I have to write my own? I
>> infer from the docs that this is the case. For example, I want the
>> screen to be updated with resize but I find myself waiting for getch()
>> if I want user input, and so the screen must remain ugly until the user
>> presses a key. What am I missing?
>>
>> Also, does anyone have boilerplate for handling mouse events? getmouse()
>> returns an "ERR" of no particular description and also appears to
>> require a preceding getch() and hence does not seem to be wired at all
>> for clicks, although allusion to clicks is found in the descriptions for
>> mouseinterval() and mousemask().
>>
>> Here is the error message for getmouse() in case anyone wants details:
>> "_curses.error: getmouse() returned ERR". This is much less informative
>> than one might hope.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> James
> 
> Did you check Urwid? http://excess.org/urwid
> 
>  Michele Simionato
> 

Perfect. Just what I was looking for.

Thank you.

James