[Tutor] Writing to the terminal?

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Mon Dec 13 01:49:58 CET 2010


"Modulok" <modulok at gmail.com> wrote

> For more complex stuff, (think blue screens with little white boxes
> you press spacebar to activate. Kind of like an OS installer) I 
> would
> look into the `curses` module in the standard library?

curses on Unix but its not in the std library for windows.

I think there is a version you can download, and there are also
libraries specifically for the PC terminal, one that I've used
successfully being Wconio, based on the Borland Turbo-C
console I/O package conio.h.

Conio is on Sourceforge.

HTH,


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