ncurses

I would like to write a simple C program that will perform different actions based on both "key down" and "key up" events. This program will be run from inside rxvt . What library or mechanism should I use to access both key presses and releases? Is it true that reading /dev/tty will only provide key releases? Is this also true for termcap, terminfo, ncurses, and slang? Is there a way to achieve this from within a terminal application? The following links may be of some assistance in using the keyboard raw mode which will give you access to the keyboard events rather than just key releases.

I'm looking into developing a console application in python which should be able to run under Windows as well as Linux. For this, I'd really like to use a high-level console library like curses. However, as far as I know, curses is not available on Windows. What other options do I have? Unfortunately, using cygwin under Windows is not an option... Thanks for your help! ehempel There is a wcurses . I've never tried it but it may meet your needs. It sounds like it doesn't have full curses compatibility, but may be close enough. Also it might not be using the DOS terminal, but opening a GUI

I installed Cygwin, choosing a fairly minimal set of packages. In a terminal, I tried to do 'clear' to clear the terminal, but I get bash: clear: command not found How do I get this to work? Marnix Klooster Install the Cygwin package ncurses ; it is in the Utils category. Krishna Murthy This should do: alias clear='printf "\033c"' just use this shortcut: Alt+F8 and Ctrl-L to skip page Jared French It's nice to have the clear.exe program for bash script files, so: Windows Cygwin detail for clear.exe program command. Download Cygwin setupx86.exe or whatever it's call at http://cygwin.com/ Run it

I have a program written in C using ncurses. It let user input and display it. It does not display correctly if user input utf8 chars. I saved the chars user inputed to a file. And I cat this file directly in Shell, it display correctly. I searched stackoverflow and google, and tried several methods, such as link with ncursesw, display incorrectly. And I ldd /usr/bin/screen : libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5 screen can display what user input correctly. How to make ncurses display UTF-8 chars correctly ? What is the general way to display UTF-8 chars in C using ncurses? You need

I have been trying to get getch to work in another program with no success. So I have made the most basic program I can using getch the way I want it to work in the main program. I have researched the need for noecho , cbreak , initscr and nodelay , I have also tried using newscr() but to no success. The problem I am having is that the chars aren't being printed to the screen till I hit "enter", when they should be put to the screen every loop. Why is this happening? Also the cursor doesn't return to the left of the screen at the new line. eg. abc def ghi I have looked for the answer but am

Is there a way to use ANSI escape codes inside mvwprintw ? mvwprintw(window, 0, 0,"%c[%dmCOLORED_TEXT!\n", 0x1B, 32);//doesn't work even though: printf("%c[%dmCOLORED_TEXT\n", 0x1B, 32); //works This would be for cases where using wattron / wattroff is not convenient; for example, when redirecting output from stdout of a process that outputs such escape codes. No. The only way to make that work would be to parse the string yourself, turning escape codes back into the appropriate curses commands, to issue along with your output. One thing you should realize is that those codes, although widely