I am making a game using curses on python. My code is:
from curses import wrapper
import curses
def main(stdscr):
score = 0
stdscr.erase()
text = '''
╔╗─╔╦═══╦╗──╔╗──╔═══╗╔╗
║║─║║╔══╣║──║║──║╔═╗║║║
║╚═╝║╚══╣║──║║──║║─║║║║
║╔═╗║╔══╣║─╔╣║─╔╣║─║║╚╝
║║─║║╚══╣╚═╝║╚═╝║╚═╝║╔╗
╚╝─╚╩═══╩═══╩═══╩═══╝╚╝
'''
stdscr.addstr(10, 10,text, curses.A_BOLD)
score += 1
stdscr.refresh()
stdscr.getkey()
wrapper(main)
The y co-ordinate seem to be working fine. However the x co-ordinate always defaults to 0 and text is pushed to the left of the screen. Is this a bug or am I missing something?
\n, so you aren't seeing that x=10 is applied. Having any other char at the start of the string will confirm this. I tried tostrip()the string, it partially works but only the first line starts at x=10. I assume you want the entire text to be indented? I am not familiar with this module to give a full answer, but hopefully this helps in your search.text- which isn't visible anyway. Each newline moves the insertion point to the left edge of the next line, the initial X coordinate no longer matters. I think the easiest solution would be to create a curses subwindow, with left/top margins wherever you want them, and insert the text into that.