cursor sensing in termcap (Re: dam (draughts, continental checkers...

[Kim Christian Madsen]

In article <774 at mcvax.UUCP> aeb at mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer) writes:
>(Unfortunately, not all the nice
>features can be expressed in this way: there is no standard capability to
>ask for the position of the cursor.)

If you use the standard package curses(3x), then you can ask which position
on the screen the cusor is at with the getyx(stdscr,y,x) command.

						Regards
						Kim Chr. Madsen
					a.k.a.	kimcm at diku.uucp