Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] resizing terminal and curses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Nicholas Cole wrote:

> I'm still trying to investigate this problem with resizing terminals.
...
> (xterm) or terminal.app if the terminal is made larger than its
> original size - curses refuses to believe it is possible to create a
> window larger than the size of the terminal when curses was
> initialised.

If ncurses cannot check for the actual screen size (a possible issue
with the compiled-in code depending on SIGWINCH as noted yesterday),
the script shown won't affect ncurses notion of the screen size.  It
"should" work to use resizeterm() to tell ncurses that the screen size
has changed.

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