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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting special question, hard to describe in few words... Post 302272709 by pseudocoder on Wednesday 31st of December 2008 12:53:08 PM
Old 12-31-2008
Question programming in C, formatting output ?!

dear coders,
i need some inspiration again...
there is something what i always wanted to know... how to code following:

Code:
value 1: __________
value 2: __________

important: when my "script" starts the display has to be cleared and two lines are shown (see above), the cursor has to be positioned above first underscore in first line. when i start to write username, the underscore(s) has(have) to remain there! when i hit enter or tab, the cursor is positioned above the first underscore in the second line.
ideally the chain of underscores will look like a line Smilie

how would the C code look?
will i have to use ncurses?

kind regards

Last edited by pseudocoder; 01-01-2009 at 03:24 AM..
 

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curs_alecompat(3CURSES) 				     Curses Library Functions					   curs_alecompat(3CURSES)

NAME
curs_alecompat, movenextch, wmovenextch, moveprevch, wmoveprevch, adjcurspos, wadjcurspos - these functions are added to ALE curses library for moving the cursor by character. SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lcurses [ library .. ] #include <curses.h> int movenextch(void); int wmovenextch(WINDOW *win); int moveprevch(void); int wmoveprevch(WINDOW *win); int adjcurspos(void); int wadjcurspos(WINDOW *win); DESCRIPTION
movenextch() and wmovenextch() move the cursor to the next character to the right. If the next character is a multicolumn character, the cursor is positioned on the first (left-most) column of that character. The new cursor position will be on the next character, even if the cursor was originally positioned on the left-most column of a multicolumn character. Note that the simple cursor increment (++x) does not guarantee movement to the next character, if the cursor was originally positioned on a multicolumn character. getyx(3CURSES) can be used to find the new position. moveprevc() and wmoveprevch() routines are the opposite of movenextch() and wmovenextch(), moving the cursor to the left-most column of the previous character. adjcurspos() and wadjcurspos() move the cursor to the first(left-most) column of the multicolumn character that the cursor is presently on. If the cursor is already on the first column, or if the cursor is on a single-column character, these routines will have no effect. RETURN VALUE
All routines return the integer ERR upon failure and an integer value other than ERR upon successful completion. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
curses(3CURSES), getyx(3CURSES), attributes(5) NOTES
The header file <curses.h> automatically includes the header files <stdio.h> , <unctrl.h> and <widec.h>. Note that movenextch(), moveprevch(), and adjcurspos() may be macros. SunOS 5.11 31 Dec 1996 curs_alecompat(3CURSES)
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