"Bill Campbell" wrote
it offers a degree of terminal independance. It was popular in the
period
before GUIs became normal but after they became desirable - ie
around 1985-1995.
And should be more desirable today for applications that require
efficient, heads-down data entry where one does n
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009, Alan Gauld wrote:
>
> "Katt" wrote
>
>> Some documentation indicate it as a module that will translate commands
>> to control screen output. Is this right? Also, why do they call it
>> curses?
>
> Thats right, it provides a way to draw GUI like "windows" on the screen
>
"Katt" wrote
Some documentation indicate it as a module that will translate commands
to control screen output. Is this right? Also, why do they call it
curses?
Thats right, it provides a way to draw GUI like "windows" on the screen
using graphics characters if they are available or plain
Curses is a pun on the term "cursor optimization". It is a library of
functions that manage an application's display on character-cell
terminals (e.g., VT100).
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 17:13 -0500, Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> Not sure what curses means but that module only works on Unix. It does
> do
Not sure what curses means but that module only works on Unix. It does
do what you want though.
On 10/12/09, Katt wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In my search for ways to change the color of text printed to the screen I
> came across discussions about curses.
>
> Some documentation indicate it as a modul
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:57:01PM -0700, Katt wrote:
> In my search for ways to change the color of text printed to the screen I
> came across discussions about curses.
>
> Some documentation indicate it as a module that will translate commands to
> control screen output. Is this right? Also,
Hello all,
In my search for ways to change the color of text printed to the screen I
came across discussions about curses.
Some documentation indicate it as a module that will translate commands to
control screen output. Is this right? Also, why do they call it curses?
Thanks in advance,
