Re: GNT, and breakage in windows

[Sadrul H Chowdhury]

On 8/10/06, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Sadrul H Chowdhury wrote:

> Now, the problem I have been facing is: the screen often gets scrambled in
> some occasions, usually when the terminal size is large, or when I am moving
> a large window. (http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~schow031/gnt/scrambled.png).

If you're asking ncurses (or other flavors of curses) to update the screen
faster than it can keep up, it'll paint only part of the screen.

Ah, I see! Can that be why the problem disappears when run from within valgrind, because valgrind slows things down?

I have just tried two workarounds to fix this: I put in a "sleep(1);" after each update_panels/doupdate pair. This didn't work. Then I tried to refresh the screen every second (by using g_timeout_add). This also didn't work. Is there any other way I can slow things down so that ncurses can be done updating the screen before it starts doing so again?

Thank you very much for the reply. Cheers,
Sadrul