Re: Display problems

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Ben Kohlen wrote:

> The problem only happens with a WINDOW created by
> newwin().  Not with stdscr.  Maybe (probably) it's my
> own brain-damage, so here's a demonstrative example:
>
  #include <curses.h>

> int main(void) {
>       WINDOW *w;
>       initscr();
>       cbreak();
>       noecho();
>       w = newwin();
                   ^^^missing parameters

>       wprintw(w, "foo");
>       wrefresh(w);
>       getch();
        ^^^^^ this does a refresh, overwriting the wrefresh that
              preceded, since there was a pending erase from initscr.
              Changing it to wgetch(w) would do what you intended.

>       wprintw(w, "bar");
>       wrefresh(w);
>       delwin(w);
>       endwin();
> }
>
> The above code outputs "   bar" when a key is hit.  If
> anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
> I've been at this, and a similar problem, where the
> pre-getch() text shows up _until_ a key is hit, then
> disappears, for over a month now.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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