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From: dalegass@dalcsug.UUCP (Dale Gass)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: curses "untouch"?
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 19:55:43 EDT
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Could anyone tell the easiest way (or any way) to 'untouch' a window
in curses?

The problem is thus: I want to scroll a portion of my screen, and curses
does this very slowly be rewriting the whole portion.  I want to do a
hardware scroll by sending the proper code directly to my terminal, doing
a scroll(win), and then having curses be happy with the way things are
and do nothing on the next wrefresh(win).  However, since curses thinks
the whole window has to be refreshed due to the scroll(), it rewrites...

Is there any way to tell curses not to bother rewriting; things are just
fine on the screen?


Also, what are the flags ENDLINE,FULLWIN,SCROLLWIN,FLUSH,FULLLINE,IDLINE,
NOCHANGE, leave, clear, ch_off for?

-dalegass@dalcsug.uucp