functions in curses.i -

 caddch  
 

 ccbreak  
 

 cclear  
 

 cclearok  
 

 cclrtobot  
 

 cclrtoeol  
 

 ccurs_move  
 

 ccurs_set  
 

 cecho  
 

 cgetch  
 

 cgetcols  
 

 cgetstr  
 

 cidlok  
 

 cisendwin  
 

 ckeypad  
 

 cleaveok  
 

 cmeta  
 

 cmvprintw  
 

 cnl  
 

 cnocbreak  
 

 cnoecho  
 

 cnoraw  
 

 cnotimeout  
 

             func countdown(sec,interval)  
 
   sec: number of seconds to coundown  
   interval: time to pause between refresh, in ms  

 crefresh  
 

 ctimeout  
 

             curses package  
 
   The curses plugin wraps some of the curses routine, hopefully enough  
   of them to do something useful in a one terminal environment (i.e.  
   I did not wrap multi-terminal curses control routines like newterm).  
   Curses allow control of the screen and keyboard in a unbuffered way.  
   you can position and write string wherever you want, without or with  
   scroll, and you can monitor keyboard events. This can be useful to  
   report results of large computations without the rapid screen scrolling  
   and/or steer simulations as they go.  
   You can see examples of use in the check-plug.i file or in the  
   "progressbar" or "countdown" routines below.  
   NOTE: This routine uses the "curses" library. Thus, it will work  
   on Linux and maxosx machines (and probably unix) but *NOT* on windows  
   machine (unless curses has been ported to windows, which I am ignorant  
   of).  
   Also, curses may not have all the term files. In particular, I have   
   noticed that it doesn't like to be ran in an emacs terminal/environment.  

 kbd  
 

 kbdend  
 

             print out a progress bar in the terminal using curse  
 
   no init necessary. Just do a tic(counter) at the start of the loop.  
   term has to be in curse mode.