laman@sdcsvax.UUCP (Mike Laman) (05/30/84)
Curses foiled again...
Someone in net.unix asked a similar question to what "lorien" asked earlier.
I responded to a personal message from her, which helped me to fully
understand just what she wanted.
She wanted curses to be "intelligent" enough to output a new line and thus
have the screen do the scrolling (which is obviously faster). I am
now telling the net what I told her, since this seems to becoming popular.
I have never done it, so you might find a bug or two (in which case I would
be VERY interested in hearing about and helping to fix); but I would
scroll BOTH "stdscr" AND "curscr". Scrolling "curscr" should get a newline
outputted on the screen and scrolling "stdscr" keeps your image like you
would want it.
I hope y'all find this of some use...
Mike Laman
UUCP: {ucbvax,philabs,sdccsu3,sdcsla}!sdcsvax!laman
P.S. I like tinkering around with curses, so let me know if there is a bug.