Re: moving windows offscreen

[Patrick]

On 08/14/2016 02:15 PM, Patrick wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I am using multiple windows. I am actually using ncurses with GnuCOBOL.
>
> I have have a menubar and drop down menuitems working but the code is 
> a bit cumbersome. I have been creating a new window each time a 
> menubar button triggers one. I have been destroying it afterwards.
>
> We can't hide/show windows like we can in GTK etc but is it a 
> reasonable workaround to move the window to some Y X coordinates so 
> that it is no longer view-able and moving it back to achieve show/hide 
> functionality ?
>
> Thanks-Patrick
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Shoot. Sorry everyone, I did not read the description of mvwin properly. 
This can't be done. Does anyone have any pointers on how to achieve a 
hide/show effect? rather then create/destroy

Sorry again for the noise-Patrick