Re: Display problems

[Peter Jay Salzman]

begin Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden> 
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Ben Kohlen wrote:
> 
> > The problem only happens with a WINDOW created by
> > newwin().  Not with stdscr.  Maybe (probably) it's my
> > own brain-damage, so here's a demonstrative example:
> >
>   #include <curses.h>
> 
> >     w = newwin();
>                    ^^^missing parameters
 
i just assumed he abbreviated the call to 0, 0, 0, 0 in order to make
the code look less complicated to us.

> >     wprintw(w, "foo");
> >     wrefresh(w);
> >     getch();
>         ^^^^^ this does a refresh, overwriting the wrefresh that
>               preceded, since there was a pending erase from initscr.
>               Changing it to wgetch(w) would do what you intended.


ok, you've un-confused me.   thank you for the explanation!

pete