Re: First steps with ncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, TheLonelyStar wrote:

> Hi,
> I did a little test program, to try my ncurses skills :). I wanted to create
> a little test window. But when I start it, I can not see anything. I don't
> get it, what is wrong?
> Thanks!
> Nathan
>
> The source:
> #include <ncurses.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>         WINDOW* w;
>         initscr();
>         w =     newwin(10,10,10,10);
>         box(w,0,0);
>         wprintw(w,"Hello World");
>         wrefresh(w);
>         refresh();

this call to refresh is unnecessary - getch does a refresh

>         getch();

this call to getch refreshes stdscr, which overwrites the change to "w".

If you had done
        wgetch(w);

it would work more/less as expected.

>         endwin();
> }

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