curses.setsyx()?

linkmaster032000 at gmail.com linkmaster032000 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 13:11:24 EDT 2008


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?



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