Re: keeping text within a *WINDOW

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:18:06AM -0400, John Bleichert wrote:
 
> Right - I got that. What I have is a text entry window in an application, 
> sort of like the text entry field in an IRC client. I made it 2 lines 
> deep, and I was wondering if there was a way to force the user's cursor to 
> 'wrap' at the right-most margin of a text-entry field.
> 
> I've gotten it working manually by getch each keystroke, not echoing it, 

if you have echo on, it will be addch'd to the window referenced by wgetch.

> then addch'ing it to the text entry field (and also a different way), I am 
> just curious if there's a way - perhaps I need to use a form or make my 
> own text-entry widget ;-)

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