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Article #847Can CURSES do a simple scroll?
From: Nikos B. Troullinos
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 1990 05:16
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 1990 05:16
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Can anyone shed some light in the following perplexing problem?
I am trying to use CURSES in a program where decent scrolling off the
screen is required when the cursor is in the last line and a newline
is echoed (how unusual!)
Compiling with cc under SUN OS 4.1 I get scrolling but also repainting
of the whole screen for each and every scroll! (whether idlok() is there or
not)
Compiling with /usr/5bin/cc (and the corresponding library) things
improve but instead of a simple echoing of a nl/cr, the insert/delete
capabilities of the terminal (vt100) are used and the cursor is sent for
a brief time on the upper left 'home' position. This is very noticeable
at a low baud rate.
Is it too much to ask for curses to behave reasonably and just send a nl/cr?
Or am I missing something really obvious? My little test program follows:
Nikos Troullinos, CIS
Syracuse University
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#include <curses.h>
#define EOT 0x4
/*
Minimum curses program to make curses do A SIMPLE SCROLLING
under SUN OS 4.1 and with a vt100 terminal setting.
*/
void main()
{
int c;
initscr();
cbreak();
noecho();
nl();
idlok(stdscr, TRUE);
scrollok(stdscr, TRUE);
refresh();
while ((c=getch()) != EOT)
{addch(c);refresh();}
refresh();
endwin();
}
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!rodan.acs.syr.edu!nicktrou From: nicktrou@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Nikos B. Troullinos) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Can CURSES do a simple scroll? Keywords: curses Message-ID: <1990Sep12.051641.11113@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Date: 12 Sep 90 05:16:41 GMT Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Lines: 49