Re: Bug in panel updates?

[Rick Richardson]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 10:35:21AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:06:32AM -0600, Rick Richardson wrote:
> > 
> > Here's a simple demo program that shows that panels aren't getting
> > updated properly unless the lines in stdscr *underneath them* are
> > also touched.
> 
> thanks (I like demo programs).

No problem.  I can't tell if its a bug or my brain-fart unless I
write these demos anyway.

That said, I should point out that my curses/forms/panels/menus
programming is a bit rusty (lets say, about 10 years rusty), and I
could be brain-farting some really smelly ones.

I'm going to see if I can find a genuine SVR3.2 system to try my
tests on.  Failing that, I'm going to reach into my bag of tricks and
link against a clone of the panel library I wrote circa 1991 (alas,
for a commercial company).  No shit, I really did this kind of work
in a previous life...

$ ls -l libeti
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users        1227 Apr 29  1991 dump_form.c
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users        1903 Apr 29  1991 dump_menu.c
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users         603 Apr 29  1991 eti.h
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users       21491 Apr 29  1991 form.c
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users        9400 Apr 29  1991 form.h
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users        1476 Apr 29  1991 formtst.c
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users        2600 Apr 29  1991 Makefile
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users       19638 Apr 29  1991 menu.c
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users        3897 Apr 29  1991 menu.h
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users        2044 Apr 29  1991 menutst.c
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users        1397 Apr 29  1991 ocurses.c
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users         983 Apr 29  1991 ocurses.h
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users       10145 Apr 29  1991 panel.c
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users         775 Apr 29  1991 panel.h
-rw-rw-rw-    1 rick     users         729 Apr 29  1991 paneltst.c

What goes around comes around.  Its all just part of the unstoppable
wheel of reincarnation that, like hamsters, we are doomed to tread
until the end of time.

-Rick

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