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From: smith@groucho
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Curses question
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.021239.8182@groucho>
Date: 29 Aug 90 02:12:39 GMT
References: <556@edpmgt.UUCP>
Reply-To: smith@wallaby.UUCP (William D. Smith)
Organization: University of Idaho, Moscow
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In article <556@edpmgt.UUCP> gpitcher@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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