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Re: Multiline text input possible at all using ncurses?
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Harishankar |
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Re: Multiline text input possible at all using ncurses? |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:08:00 +0000 (UTC) |
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Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) |
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:05:46 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Harishankar wrote:
>
>> My apologies if this is not the right group to post this question, but
>> I couldn't find any other ncurses group that was active and didn't have
>> spam.
>>
>> Is it at all possible to get multiline text input in a scrollable
>> widget in ncurses without using a third party library?
>
> From python, I'd assume you'd have to build it up (using ncurses calls
> of course). The form library provides multiline input, and I see that
> it mentions scrolling. I don't recall if the python bindings cover
> that.
>
Thanks for the reply. I will take a look at the C API for ncurses,
because Python's curses module doesn't have a scrollable text view
(though it has a curses.textpad which allows multiline text input in the
visible window only).
The Python curses interface appears to be much more limited than the C
API which is understandable. Once again thanks for the reply. I will look
at the C API and see what is possible.
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Harishankar (http://harishankar.org http://literaryforums.org)