Re: Problem with scroll in curses

[Daniel Weaver]

At 12:46 PM 4/27/2004 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, shivangi desai wrote:
>
> > I found documentation stating that my screen will physically scroll on
> > calling idlok but this does not happen.
>
> Not exactly (perhaps the wording could be improved).  idlok() is used to
> tell curses whether it can use the escape sequences for inserting or
> deleting lines as part of the optimization.  Old terminals were sometimes
> very slow when performing these operations.
>
> scrollok() is closer to what you are saying, but the rest of the problem
> report gives me the impression that you are misunderstanding what happens
> when a terminal scrolls.  It shifts the text on the screen - but the text
> that is shifted off the screen is lost.

How does this interact with the Data_above (da) and Data_below (db)
attributes?  I would think that when these attributes were set the user
could have some expectation that the data should be retained.

Does ncurses use this information to permit data to be scrolled off the
screen or just to guarantee garbage is not scrolled onto the screen?

Dan


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