Re: tutorial about how to handle resize terminal problems

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 07:39:29PM +0400, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> 
> I am a newbie in ncurses. I am writing a code using ncurses forms and menus. 
> I 
> would like to make it terminal size independent. Like is it possible to paint 
> window though it is bigger than screen? Or is it possible to change font size 
> depending on screen size. But I don't know where to start from. In none of 
> ncurses tutorials there is info about it. Could you tell where to find any 
> tutorial about the terminal size problem.

I believe you would have to delete/recreate the forms, since they do not
resize themselves.  It would be possible to do this without using internal
features of the ncurses library, so it would make a nice demo, but need not
be included within libform, etc.

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