Re: wresize and maxx/maxy short int overflow

[Katarina Machalkova]

Hi,

> > maxy/maxx are short ints (NCURSES_SIZE_T, to be more precise), while
> > wresize()
> > takes "normal" ints as params. Now I'm trying to make the window really
> > big in
> > Y dimension by setting 'lines' param to value greater than 32 768.
>
> Hi Katarina!
>
> It is an error to create a WINDOW object larger than the screen. PAD
> objects may be larger, but WINDOWs cannot (if i'm not mistaken)

I wrote "window", but I meant "pad", grrr :) it's created using newpad().

So - can I safely (i.e. without maxx/maxy running beyond limits) create a pad 
with more than 32 768 lines? Can I resize existing pad to more than 32 768 
lines? 

If the answer to the above question is negative, how can have ncurses display 
a list with many ( > 50k ) entries? 

Current implementation (which I inherited from the previous maintainer) is 
that initially a default size pad is created, it is resized to accomodate all 
the items, and as the user moves cursor keys, corresponding parts of that big 
pad are copied (copywin()) to the screen.

hB.
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