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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: resize program
Keywords: LINES COLUMNS curses
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.072600.26895@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 12 Feb 91 07:26:00 GMT
Organization: Home System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA
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I am looking for a program that would allow me to set the curses environment
variables LINES and COLUMNS to the current window's dimensions, but i don't
want to have to write something that already exists.  (Besides the fact that i
have never written an X program before, and i don't really have the time to
delve into it right now)

Right now, for non-standard window sizes, i simply manually type the following
for each window after it has come up (for example):

export LINES=15 COLUMNS=117

I would rather stick something like the following into my .kshrc so that it
automatically gets done for me at window creation time:

export LINES=$(resize -l) COLUMNS=$(resize -c)

-l for lines, -c for columns, or something like that.  It would obviously be a
very simple program (?) for someone who knows X (it would be nice to have it
done in c++ too!), and it would be a good, simple study piece for a person
starting to learn X.

Anybody have the source code for such a program???

derek
-- 
Derek "Tigger" Terveer	det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG -- U of MN Women's Lax
I am the way and the truth and the light, I know all the answers; don't need
your advice.  -- "I am the way and the truth and the light" -- The Legendary Pink Dots