Re: Restarting Curses

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: Restarting Curses, Thomas Dickey said (at 4:29pm on Sep...:

> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Tim Mooney wrote:
>
> > In regard to: Restarting Curses, Nicholas Cole said (at 3:30pm on Sep 3, 
> > 2009):
> > > I have a strange problem.  I have code that can start up and close
> > > down curses making sure the terminal is reset.  But if I call it a
> > > second time, the terminal is not properly reset.  I'm using python,
> > > but I suspect it would be the same in C.  What might I be doing wrong?
> >
> > It's been years and years since I've done any curses programming so I'm
> > a little rusty, but I do remember this hard-learned lesson: you only want
> > to call initscr() ONCE per program.
>
> for portable programs, yes.
>
> ncurses happens to allow initscr more than once, but that's
> something that other curses implementations do not support.

I don't believe that's always been true with ncurses, though I could be
misremembering.  It's been a long time...

Tim
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