That's pretty strange to me, because I actually tested it inside an xterm.

Anyway, the real core function produces a text string with newlines that simply gets printed in the main while loop. I actually don't know how to clear the terminal screen from inside perl, so the best I could afford was to simply scroll. To solve the console mode problem, the best you can do is probably to increase the clock height (which is the second parameter you provide to the script).

I've developed a version that uses Tk to pop up an ad-hoc window for the clock, but I actually find it quite unuseful to have to pop up a graph window for an ascii-based clock!

If I find some solution for the screen clear which does not require strange modules I'll change the implementation and warn you, be sure. In the meantime, thanks for your feedback.

Flavio

-- Don't fool yourself.

In reply to Re^2: ASCII analog clock by polettix
in thread ASCII analog clock by polettix

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