Re: FAQs?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:30:54AM +0800, Donny Lee wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >>Is there any mcurses FAQs available?
> > The current version of ncurses is 5.2 (20001021)
> > There's an faq at
> >     http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html
> 
>   Well, thanks.
> 
>   These seem too deep for my level, i'm just looking for
>   the 'screen' struct definition.      :)
> 
> 
>   as i read the curses.h, i can find the '_win_st' (WINDOW),
>   but no 'screen' (SCREEN)

yes.  SCREEN is intentionally (not just ncurses) "opaque", which means
that user applications cannot see into it.  Along the same lines,
NetBSD curses makes WINDOW opaque as well.

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