Thread: ncurses, windows, and colors

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    ncurses, windows, and colors

    I had a few questions about ncurses and how it handles windows and colors.

    I was practicing programming using the ncurses and I can't figure out a few things.

    My first problem is when I make a new window and than I try to print something to the stdscr, the window I made looses it's borders. Why is that?

    Second problem is I don't really understand colors and when you're supposed to refresh and to what window. If you do something like this:

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    init_pair(1, COLOR_BLUE, COLOR_BLACK);
    attron(COLOR_PAIR(1);
    and you don't have a window you get a black background and a blue foreground. But when I made a window the only thing that had a black background was the window border and the text in the window also had a black background and a blue forground. I'm guessing this is because I'm not refreshing right?
    ~flood

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    I haven't really messed with curses, but what tutorial are you using? This one is quite lengthy and I have been meaning to read it, hope it helps:http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/
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    thats the one i'm learning from
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