Re: bug with wclear ano/or werase?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Christ, Bryan wrote:

> Does anyone know if this is a bug...
>
> I have a subwin which is a subwin of a subwin (say that 3 times fast).
> In pictorial representation it would be:
>
> real_window (size 20x30)
>     |-----subwin_a (size 15x25)
>              |------subwin_b (size 10x20)
>
> When I do a wbkgdset on subwin_b then follow it with a wclear or werase,
> the subwin_a actually gets affected.  However, when I do a box() on
> subwin_b, all works fine.

The subwin's use the same memory locations in the parent window,
so (without a more detailed example), I'd assume that the difference
in behavior is due to a difference in update/refresh order.

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