curses.setsyx()?

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Mon Sep 22 23:24:18 EDT 2008


linkmaster032000 at gmail.com wrote:
>On Sep 19, 6:42 pm, linkmaster032... at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Sep 19, 1:24 am, Tim Roberts <t... at probo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > linkmaster032... at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > >I tried curses.setsyx(2,3) in my script and it doesn't move the curses
>> > >cursor. Any alternatives/solutions?
>>
>> > Did you call doupdate after?  setsyx just manipulates the data structures.
>> > It takes a call to doupdate to force those changes to take effect visually.
>> > --
>> > Tim Roberts, t... at probo.com
>> > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>>
>> I added it and it still doesn't work. This is what I'm doing when I
>> want to display the cursor and prepare it for input at 2,3:
>>
>> curses.echo()
>> curses.curs_set(1)
>> curses.setsyx(2,3)
>> curses.doupdate()
>
>Any idea what's wrong?

No.  Are you able to post an entire sample that demonstrates the problem?
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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