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Hello,

I tried to use a windows function in ncurses library. Could some one tell me why windows are transparent. Tiling windows does not work. The top windows does not hide texte writen inside the bottom window. I need it to be solid, opaque like any windowing system.

Thank you.

brewbuck

From the ncurses introduction:

If you want to alter curses to support this better, a lot of people would appreciate it.

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MK27

I've never gone that far with ncurses, but does that apply to windows where there is a COLOR_PAIR background color in use?

You could always resize the windows. Remember, ncurses is not a GUI "windowing system", and in that sense, the "windows" are not windows at all...

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brewbuck

Honestly, I think ncurses is stale both in terms of design and modern functionality. Its function naming doesn't even attempt to play nice in terms of name-stomping, it smears global data all over the place, and it assumes too much about the structure of the code around it.

The biggest thing ncurses brings to the table is spectacularly consistent support of an awful lot of terminal emulations. And that's becoming less and less important (depending how you look at it).

I think the world is due for a new terminal graphics library.

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dickey

The windows aren't really transparent: refreshing a
window causes the changes to be shown on the
standard screen. As noted, the panel library is used
to handle stacked windows. However, it's possible
with some care to use touchwin and refresh to do the
simpler cases of stacked windows.