Ncurses uses the move function either by itself or inconjunction with another function such as mvprintw() to place the cursor where it is going to write on the screen. If a package parks the cursor and writes into a screen buffer it then copies into place with refresh() then it looks like the cursor never moved. The only way to have the cursor show up where you want it to be is to put it there. I wrote the patches for make menuconfig to do cursor tracking. I also wrote the patches to make the newton library track. It is just a matter of brute force code patching to get it to work correctly and then convince the packages author he wants/needs the patches. the convincing part isn't really that difficult if you've done all the work for them. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
