Re: Simple pad test not working

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, jfilion wrote:

> Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work?  I'm new to ncurses so it could be
> something really simple.  I'm running Ubuntu Netbook Remix (10.04).  My
> compile command is:
>
> g++ padtest.cc -l ncurses -o padtest
>
> Thanks.
>
> #include <curses.h>
>
> int main (int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>  initscr();
>  WINDOW * pad;
>
>  pad = newpad(50, 100);
>  waddstr(pad, "test");
>
>  prefresh(pad, 0, 0, 0, 0, 10, 10);
>
>  getch();
   ^^^ this is the same as wgetch(stdscr), which causes a refresh of
       any changes to stdscr.  From initscr, there's a pending erase
       of the screen...

>  endwin();
>  return(0);
> }
>
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