Re: Bug in panel updates?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 10:21:41AM -0600, Rick Richardson wrote:
> 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...

Testing on Solaris 2.5.1, I see it doing the same as ncurses.  It might be
desirable to change the behavior (but it's Juergen's call on that).

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