Re: Form Lib

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Ricardo Cantu wrote:

> I am trying to keep some CDK widgets on top of a windows/Form, but anytime any
> field is updated or any field navigation is performed the widgets are
> overlaid by what I assume is the form window. It seems as though the Form Lib
> is forcing the entire window to be re-written any time any movement or update
> is done to any field. I assumed that if nothing was changed in the area of
> the widget that it would not have been written over. In the mean time I'm
> having to issue a refreshCDKScreen () to keep the widgets on top of the form.
> This makes for a very unpleasant refresh flicker.
>
> Is it the intended behavior of the form lib to re-write the entire window so
> often? Or am I missing something?

It's probably doing a wrefresh() rather than wnoutrefresh().
Cdk does some of the latter, but there are certainly places to improve.

I recall some previous discussion of using panel+form libraries,
but don't recall anything for panel+Cdk - but making those combinations
work seems the way to go.

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