jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa (07/06/87)
I am writing something that uses curses (ultrix on vax 8600).
The code I am writing calls a function that returns a string
and then calls curses to put this on the screen I am only using
stdscr and curscr, no intricate windows etc. Addstr() gave
me garbage ( it only printed the first letter of the string
returned by the function). Printw()
worked fine. Why??
Jerry Freedman
jfjr@mitre-bedford.arparoot@turnkey.UUCP (The Super User) (07/10/87)
In article <8180@brl-adm.ARPA>, jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa writes: > > I am writing something that uses curses (ultrix on vax 8600). > The code I am writing calls a function that returns a string > and then calls curses to put this on the screen I am only using > stdscr and curscr, no intricate windows etc. Addstr() gave > me garbage ( it only printed the first letter of the string > returned by the function). Printw() > worked fine. Why?? This is very odd since both addstr() and printw() make use of the common function addch(). I have worked with both these functions (under Xenix) and have not noticed any problem. Could there be any peculiarity of the string your function returns that might cause addstr() a problem but which the formatting of printw() gets around? Why don't you give a bit more detail of the code which may shed some light on things. I would be interested in hearing about it since I have had my share of head-scratching with curses code as well. Best regards, Jack Vogel, Turnkey Computer Consultants -- uucp: ...seismo!uunet!ccicpg!turnkey!root