Curses question
smith at groucho
smith at groucho
Wed Aug 29 12:12:39 AEST 1990
In article <556 at edpmgt.UUCP> gpitcher at edpmgt.UUCP (Glenn Pitcher) writes:
>
>Question... I supposed to write a series of programs which will call each
>other via the 'system' library call. By problem is that all of these
>programs use the curses library. The code fragments below are samples of
>what I've come up with and they seem to work OK yet when control is passed
>back to program 'A', I can't get the screen to update correctly (even though
>the data is there). I'm sure the problem is with the fact that both of these
>programs are using curses on the same tty so, can somebody tell me how to do
>it better?
>
> endwin();
>}
>
>Now I did think about using a variation of exec but I need to pass control back
>to program 'A' when 'B' has completed.
>
>WHAT AM I MISSING???? ARRRGGGGG!!!!!
>
When program B is finished I assume you are doing a refresh in program A.
Since you did not use the curses routines in program A to change the screen
program A has no way of knowing that the window has changed. You can use the
touchwin command to force the window to do a total update.
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