Re: Curses 5.3 pad problem

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Nick Johnson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been unable to get pads working correctly in Curses 5.3.
> The following problem runs fine on systems with curses 5.2, correctly
> displaying an '@' in the upper left before quitting, but on every system
> I have tried with curses 5.3, it fails to produce any output whatsoever.
> I can't help feeling I'm missing something - surely pads do still work
> in 5.3?

They do - but the limit checks are a little different.  The last two
parameters should be LINES-1, COLS-1 (that seems to be the check that's
failing here).

> ---Begin Code---
> #include <ncurses.h>
>
> int main() {
>         WINDOW *w;
>         initscr();
>         w = newpad(256, 256);
>         waddch(w, '@');
>         prefresh(w, 0, 0, 0, 0, LINES, COLS);
>         endwin();
> }
> ---End Code---
>
> -Nick Johnson

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