Re: console update

[James Morrison]

--- Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 06:53:15AM -0700, James Morrison wrote:
> >    In one of your emails, you mentioned artifacts in the console-ncurses
> > translator.  I'm curious, do you call clrtoeol () after printing each line
> > with console-ncurses?
> 
> No need, as I guarantee that all cells are written at least once and are
> written when they are changed.  I do print a space where ncurses does not
> delete the cell, it's ncurses deciding to make it a cursor right.
> 
> But I think I know what happens: some characters are not displayable in
> ncursesw or the terminal's opinion, but they are counted as printed anyway. 
> This makes ncurses _think_ it has written it, and thus comes one character
> short at the end of the line.
> 
> So, ncursesw cannot display bullets, umlauts, copyright signs in some
> terminals, or prints the wrong character codes.  If I am right, that is the
> only bug left, and I have no idea how to approach it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marcus
> 

 Ok, thanks for the explanation.  I had asked because ncurses tries to wrap
lines for you.  So a line, X, that is 160 characters on an 80 character
terminal
will write two lines.  However, if you try to print a line that is less than
80 characters on the line after the beginning X without calling clrtoeol (), 
you will get extra characters at the 2nd line.


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James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

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