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From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
To : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:32:28 +1000
Re: Text mode cursor
Niklas Höglund writes:
> Currently I have two problems with the terminfo target:
>
> 1. The terminfo target does not seem to be able to display all of the latin1
> character set.
The character set for LibGGI text modes (& ggiPutc/s) is defined to be
"ASCII compatible". What the characters are in the range 0x80 - 0xFF is
not defined -- it could be IBM cp437, or latin1, or iso8859-9, or even
not usable at all (e.g. 7 bit terminals).
I know that doesn't help you much. The best you can hope for, is that
someone adds an extension which allows text-mode-using programs to query
(& perhaps change) the character set / font.
> 2. There doesn't seem to be a way to move the cursor. It's very annoying if
> there's a blinking cursor down in the left corner of the display.
> It would be OK if the standard cursor could be turned off, but I'd prefer
> if I could move it to where I want.
LibGGI text modes are not defined to have a cursor. You should draw
your own, since on some targets there won't even be a hardware one.
As for turning the standard cursor off, yeah we should add an option
like "-nocursor" to do that.
Cheers,
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