Curses sorely lacking an event loop?

[Michele Simionato]

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