Re: how to make buffer for scrolling?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Radim Roska wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i've got a window where messages etc are displayed...some messages are
> displayed using different colors. So this has to be same after scrolling.
>
> I was thinking about some structure that would save last x displayed strings
> and after scroll this lines would be displayed by recalling functions that
> displayed them first time. But that would mean i would have to create
> objects that will contain parsed strings which i'll display in proper way. I
> dont like this idea very much..:/

That sounds like what you'd have to do, though.

> How to do what bash terminal does? :) Form can do scrolling but without

bash isn't a terminal - it uses whatever terminal it happens to be running
in, such as xterm.

> colors. Am i missing some important ncurses feature?

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