[Tutor] Re: Full screen in text mode?

[Prahlad Vaidyanathan]

Hi,

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 Charles M Howe spewed into the ether:
> Tuts, (hope this is ok as a salutation)
> 
> I am undertaking a task that will (very likely) require a GUI if I like
> it enough to release it to the world. However, if I could control the
> entire screen in text mode -- colorize printing, maybe have some large
> fonts, move about a fixed screen, create a few icons -- I would stay in
> text mode until (and if) I basically solve the problem. So my question
> is, Is this possible?

    You can do a lot of funky stuff on the console with curses or
ncurses. Under python, you could use the curses library.

    To get started, you might want to take a look at :

        http://www.python.org/doc/howto/curses/curses.html

    A quick google also threw up this :

        http://pyncurses.sourceforge.net

HTH,
    
pv.
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