Re: SIGWINCH problem

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, maxim maxim wrote:

> Hi, i need your help in some issue.
> i'm trying to work in curses mode and i have problem with resizing
> (minimizing) a window of a terminal.
> my signal handler function is :
> void sig_winch(int signo)
> {
>     struct winsize size;
>     ioctl(fileno(stdout), TIOCGWINSZ, (char*)&size);
>    resizeterm(size.ws_row, size.ws_col);
>    flushinp();
> }

There's two issues - it's not safe to put resizeterm in the signal 
handler.

> after getting the signal SIGWINCH( when i'm minimizing the window) i see the
> output on the window is ok, and when i try to print with printw() or
> addstr() i see the half of the window is deleted. How i can to solve this
> problem.

resizeterm is only going to repaint the parts of the window that grew - 
with blanks.  Perhaps that's what you are seeing.

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