RE: major problem with trivial piece of code

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Heusden van, FJJ (Folkert) wrote:

> You forgot to add your own text :-)

I added a "refresh();" call, but forgot that your message was much longer
than that...

> Anyway, I might have found it: it seems to be a problem with the \n in
> the text. It seems that if you wprintw() a string with a \n in it, only
> spaces are printed.

yes - it clears the remainder of the current line, and moves to the next
line.  This is confusing if you're printing into a single-line window.

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