Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Max" Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps Subject: Re: Set/get console cursor position without use ncurses Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <1bhaokyvez.fsf@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net> <871ufn3ugh.fsf@thumper.dhh.gt.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: XeaFq7RFuYE91z09Ay5xSQ.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: XanaNews/1.18.1.6 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.development.apps:534 John Hasler wrote: > Under Linux Ncurses is the API for interaction with a terminal. It is > present on all Linux installations except specially stripped-down > embedded systems. I know but I need to cover all possible situations. > If you are working with an embedded system with which only one type of > terminal will ever be used and the overhead of Ncurses is intolerable > just send the codes. > > Under DOS and Windows this "problem" does not exist because choice of > terminals does not exist. > > I'd suggest that you look at other options such as S-lang, but you > seem to have an aversion to libraries. Absolutely not. As said my problem is to make a "compact" tool more portable as possible. However after checked the way of console codes I decided to move using ncurses but trying to "integrate" the library source code inside the project. This will allow to use different compilers (just x86 and arm right now) without need to have the library in binary format to link statically. By the way, thank you for your help --