Re: Moving the cursor

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From: Thierry Lach
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 22:42

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sfd@bezier.berkeley.edu (Scott Drellishak) writes:

> I'm using the curses library in a project, and have the following
> question: How can I move the cursor into the corner of the screen (out
> of the way) after a refresh?  I've tried using the mvcur() function,
> but this only confuses the rest of curses, and messes up the next
> refresh.  The documentation I have is woefully sucky.  Either pointers
> to better docs or specific solutions are greatly appreciated.
> 
> Scott

Tell the window   "leaveok(window,FALSE)", then use
"wmove(window,y,x)" followed by "wrefresh(window)".  That works
for me...

Thierry Lach				UUCP: sharkey!sycom!curlie!thierry
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