david@talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes) (12/12/90)
Hello netland, Can anyone tell me now to turn off the curser so that it does not show up on the screen. This is on Sys V 386 using curses. I have a nice menu but the blinking curser makes it look messy. thanks in advance. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Hoopes Tallgras Technologies Inc. uunet!talgras!david 11100 W 82nd St. Voice: (913) 492-6002 x323 Lenexa, Ks 66214
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (12/13/90)
In article <21@talgras.UUCP> david@talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes) writes: | Can anyone tell me now to turn off the curser so that it does not | show up on the screen. | | This is on Sys V 386 using curses. I have a nice menu but the blinking | curser makes it look messy. ANSI escapes: \033[=12;10C # cursor off \033[=10;12C # cursor on -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
jellis@vicstoy.UUCP (Jacob Ellis) (12/14/90)
In article <21@talgras.UUCP> david@talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes) writes: >Hello netland, > >Can anyone tell me now to turn off the curser so that it does not >show up on the screen. > >This is on Sys V 386 using curses. I have a nice menu but the blinking >curser makes it look messy. The blinking cursor is really dependent on your terminal's capabilities (ie. it may not support turning the cursor off). Anyway, if it can be done the function curs_set() in curs_kernel(3X) will do the trick. >David Hoopes Tallgras Technologies Inc. >uunet!talgras!david 11100 W 82nd St. >Voice: (913) 492-6002 x323 Lenexa, Ks 66214 -- Jacob Ellis -- jellis@vicstoy.UUCP -- Any opinions expressed above are mine
jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter) (12/16/90)
>In article <21@talgras.UUCP> david@talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes) writes: > Can anyone tell me now to turn off the curser so that it does not > show up on the screen. > > This is on Sys V 386 using curses. I have a nice menu but the blinking > curser makes it look messy. Why is it necessary to litter the net with questions that are trivially answered by Reading The F*cking Manual? The term RTFM is supposed to instill in people a sense of great shame and personal failure when they fail to obey it. This is not only to reduce net litter, but also because people who don't read the manual are bad programmers who make many undetected mistakes, and some of them might be designing weapons systems or something. Yikes. So, you can turn off the curser by RTFM. But if you want to know how to turn off the *cursor*, according to the System V/386 Release 3.2 Programmer's Reference Manual, article CURSES(3X), page 27, you will find that curs_set(0) will make the cursor disappear if the terminal supports it. Due to a printing error, the error code if the terminal doesn't support it is omitted, but consistency and experimentation indicates that it is ERR. Here's some code I use: if ( curs_set(0) != ERR ) /* try to make cursor invisible */ leaveok(stdscr, TRUE); /* don't care where curses leaves it */ ... move(LINES-1, COLS-1); /* in case the cursor isn't invisible, put it out of the way */ refresh(); In article <2600@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: > > ANSI escapes: > > \033[=12;10C # cursor off > \033[=10;12C # cursor on First, the guy asked about curses, so this info isn't directly useful to him. Second, these sequences only work with the console drivers of certain versions of certain operating systems; they are not generally available. Third, your cursor on sequence is actually making the cursor occupy scan lines 10-12, which may or may not be aesthetically pleasing, and may not show the cursor at all if you aren't in 25-line mode (e.g., it won't work with stty ENH_C80x43 on 386/ix 2.2 (don't try this command on other systems!)). But, if you really want to use these sequences with your console driver and curses, set the civis and cnorm capabilities in your terminfo entry. For details, RTFM. Given the number of broken terminfo entries distributed with the system, this will put you into a select minority. "People with lives don't read UseNet."
wmark@wb3ffv.ampr.org (Mark Winsor) (12/17/90)
> | This is on Sys V 386 using curses. I have a nice menu but the blinking > | curser makes it look messy. > > ANSI escapes: > > \033[=12;10C # cursor off > \033[=10;12C # cursor on Use curs_set(0) for sys5.3 (Can't vouch for others. 0 turns off the curser 1 turns it to normal, and 2 turns it super-visible). Mark S. Winsor Systems Analyst ProVAR, Inc.