Re: terminal or cursor control

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-May-2001, Ben Sapp <address@hidden> wrote:

| "E. Joshua Rigler" wrote:
| > 
| > Is it possible in Octave to rewrite a line without sending a newline?

| I think this will do somehting pretty close to what you want:
| 
| page_screen_output = 0;
| page_output_immediately = 1;
| octave:162> for i = 1:100
| > printf("\r%d",i);
| > sleep(1);
| > endfor
| 
| The "\r" returns you to the beginning of the current line.  This little
| script will print a 1, then a 2, ... all the way up to 100.   All on the
| same line and erasing the number that was there before.  

This is nice, but it would also be really cool to have an Octave
package that provides an interface to something like ncurses.  Any
volunteers?

Thanks,

jwe



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