Cursor Positioning

[Steve Holmes]

Yea, the author has no problems with making these changes; I want to
figure out what I can and give him the patches and he said he'd be
glad to incorporate them.  I just have a bit of trouble figuring out
what to use to move the cursor there.  My first thing to tackle is the
editbox or textfield.  The perl implementation of Curses includes
many, but not all curses functions but I'm pretty sure they have a
move function.  I just need to figure this out.

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:44:10PM -0500, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Ncurses uses the move function either by itself or inconjunction with
> another function such as mvprintw() to place the cursor where it is
> going to write on the screen.  If a package parks the cursor and
> writes into a screen buffer it then copies into place with refresh()
> then it looks like the cursor never moved.  The only way to have the
> cursor show up where you want it to be is to put it there.  I wrote
> the patches for make menuconfig to do cursor tracking.  I also wrote
> the patches to make the newton library track.  It is just a matter of
> brute force code patching to get it to work correctly and then
> convince the packages author he wants/needs the patches.  the
> convincing part isn't really that difficult if you've done all the
> work for them.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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