Re: Question .....

[Ben Duncan]

Ok thanks was making sure I was not crazy.

The WINDOW system I wrote for S-lang, would repaint, but the way
I did it was using the "capture" to memory (using the SL read raw screen)
and then as each MENU item got pop'd off, restore the BEFORE image.

Kinda a hack I know, but worked really well.

SO... I guess, everything I will be doing will be using panels form this
point forward, six to one, have a dozen another I guess....


Again, thanks ...

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Ben Duncan wrote:
>
> > Ok, I have been puzzling over this now for some time.
> >
> > When creating WINDOWS, when a WINDOW gets closed, do you ALWAYS have
> > to go thru your window list and rebuild the screen?
>
> "yes" - it's odd that delwin doesn't repaint the other windows, and if
> you're not using panels, they don't get repainted.
>
> I once used a version of curses (on VMS) which repainted after a delwin.
> My impression was that it was based on a BSD flavor.  The AT&T / SVr4
> flavor didn't do that.
>
> (changing it would break some programs, I guess)
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