Cool manual page but no... the page still scrolled up and I ended up in the next line, rather than restarting in the same line.
I think I have to check whether the cursor is in the last line of the window or not and do the reverse line feed only in that case. Together with an answer that I found elsewhere on this forum I came up with this version of the function which apparently works now:
I want to get the screen width and cursor positions.
When I used curses, all the screen content was cleared.
So Can I use curses to get the screen size without clearing anything in the window?
Or is there any other alternative???
I can use only C or C++. (0 Replies)
Hi,
Pleae help me on this. Normally, when we say read username, the cursor will come in the first position of next line, but I want the output of the below
Normal usage
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please enter username:
_
I want like the below
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please enter username:
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Hi to all!
I'm a teacher of maths and physics in an italian high school in Milan, Italy.
I need a simple program that read the position of mouse cursor in function of time and write the coordinates in a text file. The time resolution have to be something like 1/10 sec or better (I have to know... (2 Replies)
hi all,
am trying to modify a ksh script to group server names together depending on the cluster they sit in. currently the script does a
find . -name '*.pid'
to find all running servers and prints out their pids and names.
current output looks something like this :
serverA ... (1 Reply)
I need to get the cursor position, and put it inside a variable. Problem is, i don't have the tput command, or ncurses.
Apparently I was supposed to try the following:
echo -e '\E
But I don't get a value or anything. Please help. (3 Replies)
Hi there.
It's easier to explain this with a pseudo code, I hope this makes sense:
var1=hello
echo $var1
some kind of loop
echo loop counter
done
How do I hold the cursor position immediately behind the last output so I'd get something like:
hello123456789
DOS used to use ","... (5 Replies)