Re: LYNX-DEV The new (slang) clear() (was: fotemods.zip update)

[Foteos Macrides]

Klaus Weide <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Fri, 9 May 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:
>
>> 1997-05-09
>> * Added an LY_SLclear() function in LYCurses.c as a more efficient
>>   substitute for slang of the curses clear(), based on a patch from
>>   JED. - FM
>
>This certainly acts much nicer as long as everything goes right -
>BUT there now is no way for the user to really force a refresh, short
>of interrupting Lynx with '!' or '^Z' and then returning.  I think 
>that ^L should force a screen refresh as before, even if for other cases
>JED's function is used.

        In LYMainLoop.c, change the #idef'ing so that clearok() is
set for slang, and not just for VMS:

[...]
        case LYK_REFRESH:
           refresh_screen = TRUE;
#if defined(VMS) || defined(USE_SLANG)
           clearok(curscr, TRUE);
#endif /* VMS || USE_SLANG */
           break;
[...]

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