Re: [Tutor] How to get terminal settings

2006-01-20 Thread Vincent Zee
On Thursday, 19 January 2006 at 23:53:06 -, Alan Gauld wrote: > Assuming you are on a Unix style OS/terminal you can read the > output of stty. Look at the rows value > > Here are a couple of runs of rows at different terminal sizes: > > $ stty -a | grep rows > speed 38400 baud; rows 41; col

Re: [Tutor] How to get terminal settings

2006-01-20 Thread Vincent Zee
On Thursday, 19 January 2006 at 16:03:16 -0800, Terry Carroll wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Vincent Zee wrote: > > > Any pointers to other curses howto's? > > There's http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Python/PyCurses.pdf ; but > it's mostly a couple of example programs, without a lot of exp

Re: [Tutor] How to get terminal settings

2006-01-19 Thread Terry Carroll
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Vincent Zee wrote: > Any pointers to other curses howto's? There's http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Python/PyCurses.pdf ; but it's mostly a couple of example programs, without a lot of explanation. ___ Tutor maillist - Tut

Re: [Tutor] How to get terminal settings

2006-01-19 Thread Alan Gauld
Assuming you are on a Unix style OS/terminal you can read the output of stty. Look at the rows value Here are a couple of runs of rows at different terminal sizes: $ stty -a | grep rows speed 38400 baud; rows 41; columns 80; line = 0; $ stty -a | grep rows speed 38400 baud; rows 26; columns 80;

Re: [Tutor] How to get terminal settings

2006-01-19 Thread Vincent Zee
On Thursday, 19 January 2006 at 12:37:38 -0800, Danny Yoo wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Vincent Zee wrote: > > > say you want to write a more-like program. How do you know how many > > lines the terminal window can display. > > Hi Vincent, > > It's possible that this information might alre

Re: [Tutor] How to get terminal settings

2006-01-19 Thread Danny Yoo
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Vincent Zee wrote: > say you want to write a more-like program. How do you know how many > lines the terminal window can display. Hi Vincent, It's possible that this information might already be in your environment. If you're using the 'bash' shell, and if the 'checkwinsiz

Re: [Tutor] How to get terminal settings

2006-01-19 Thread Vincent Zee
On Thursday, 19 January 2006 at 11:29:29 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006, Vincent Zee wrote: > >Hi, > > > >say you want to write a more-like program. > >How do you know how many lines the terminal window > >can display. > > Use the curses library, and it will take care of this f

Re: [Tutor] How to get terminal settings

2006-01-19 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006, Vincent Zee wrote: >Hi, > >say you want to write a more-like program. >How do you know how many lines the terminal window >can display. Use the curses library, and it will take care of this for you. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC

[Tutor] How to get terminal settings

2006-01-19 Thread Vincent Zee
Hi, say you want to write a more-like program. How do you know how many lines the terminal window can display. /\ Vincent ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor