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From: john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Curses Problem
Keywords: Curses
Message-ID: <1989Nov10.152919.2213@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 10 Nov 89 15:29:19 GMT
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Reply-To: john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt)
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In article <617@dcscg1.UUCP> drezac@dcscg1.UUCP (Duane L. Rezac) writes:
>HELP!!!
>
>
>I am trying to use the curses package in a c program, and I can not determine
>what my problem is. 
>main()
>{
>  WINDOW *win;
>  initscr(); 
>  win=newwin(10,10,10,10);
>  box(win,'+','+');
>  wprintw(win,"this is a test");
>  wrefresh(win);
>  endwin();
>  exit(0);
>};


You have not specifically placed the cursor before you issued
the wprint statment.  That could leave the cursor location at
a spot outside of the window, in which case the print statement
won't execute (at least in my version it quietly fails if asked
to print outside of the legal boundaries.  

You should do one of the following:

	wmove(win, 0,0);
	wprintw(win, "this is a test");

or

	mvwprintw(win, 0, 0, "this is at test");

Either will work.
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