Re: how i do the Page up effect

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:03:12PM +0000, Senyakhaz wrote:
> Hi. I'm sorry about my english.
> I want to make a window that a user presses Page Up (or any key) and 
> shows the past lines like in BitchX that we press Page Up and show the 
> lines that disappeared in the screen.
> Thanks

windows don't do that by themselves: you can make a pad (like a viewport
into a very large window) - there's an example of that in test/ncurses.c

normally one uses curses to scroll the window, and then use addstr or
something like that to paint lines of text on the exposed area.

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