curses.setsyx()?

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Fri Sep 19 18:42:57 EDT 2008


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()



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