Re: how to tell ncurses to repaint buffer

[Tobias Boege]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Oliver wrote:
> Hi ncurses mailing list ... how do I get ncurses to repaint the whole
> buffer to the screen, ie not just the characters that have changed (like
> forcing it to do a integral frame in mpg lingo).
> 
> As a bit of background, we are using ncurses in a slightly different way
> than normal. I have it outputting to a char driver for a really simple LCD
> so we can use the ncurses menu lib to make a nice little menu interface on
> our embedded product. This is all working quite well atm except for what
> seems to be a hardware glitch where the LCD gets out of sync with the
> driver, we can detect this and get back in sync, but we cannot undo the
> trash characters written while we were out of sync. So to "fix" the screen
> I just want ncurses to repaint the whole buffer as though the screen is in
> a blank random state like when the ncurses menu process starts, is this
> possible ?
> 
> note this only happens very occasionally so I am not concerned about
> flickering effects.
> 

Maybe redrawwin() or, more fine-grained, wtouchln() can help you. Their
man pages should tell you everything you need to know. I think you can
also use clearok().

Regards,
Tobi

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