Re: Multiline text input possible at all using ncurses?

[Harishankar]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:05:46 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Harishankar wrote:
> 
>> My apologies if this is not the right group to post this question, but
>> I couldn't find any other ncurses group that was active and didn't have
>> spam.
>>
>> Is it at all possible to get multiline text input in a scrollable
>> widget in ncurses without using a third party library?
> 
> From python, I'd assume you'd have to build it up (using ncurses calls
> of course).  The form library provides multiline input, and I see that
> it mentions scrolling.  I don't recall if the python bindings cover
> that.
> 

Thanks for the reply. I will take a look at the C API for ncurses, 
because Python's curses module doesn't have a scrollable text view 
(though it has a curses.textpad which allows multiline text input in the 
visible window only). 

The Python curses interface appears to be much more limited than the C 
API which is understandable. Once again thanks for the reply. I will look 
at the C API and see what is possible.

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