Re: Is there a portable way to copy SCREEN

[Bryan Christ]

I realize that SCREEN and WINDOW are different types, but ncurses stores
the "artwork" of the SCREEN in several WINDOW buffers
(_curscr,_newscr,_stdscr)--at least the way I'm reading it.  Also, I
have already discovered that SCREEN is abstracted--this is unfortunate.
I was really hoping there was an undocumented, reliable (portable) way
of copying the "artwork" from a SCREEN to a WINDOW.



On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 17:49 +0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Bryan Christ wrote:
> 
> > If I wanted to copy the contents of a SCREEN to a WINDOW, is there a
> > good way of doing this?  I am hesitant to simply copy struct screen ->
> > *_curscr
> 
> SCREEN and WINDOW are different types.
> 
> From the outset, everyone's implemented SCREEN as an opaque type.
> So you can't copy it...
>