Thread: Yet another lame program -- ncurses problem

Ok, i'm working on another simple ncurses program for a few friends and I. It's supposed to do this, in it's present state of being just a GUI-test (well, not exactly a GUI):

1) Show title at top -- it does this.
2) Create another window, below that, with a border. that window fills up the rest of the screen. --- this doens't work.

Here's the source.

Code:

#include <ncurses.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  WINDOW *win;
  int curchar;
  int height = (LINES - 5);
  int width = (COLS - 3);
  
  initscr();
  cbreak();
  keypad(stdscr, TRUE);
  noecho();
  start_color();
  
  init_pair(1, COLOR_GREEN, COLOR_BLACK);
  init_pair(2, COLOR_BLUE, COLOR_BLACK);
  init_pair(3, COLOR_RED, COLOR_BLACK);
  init_pair(4, COLOR_WHITE, COLOR_BLACK);
  
  bkgdset(COLOR_BLACK);
  attron(A_BOLD | COLOR_PAIR(1));
  mvprintw(0, (COLS / 2) - (0.5 * strlen("SCSCO Communicator")), "SCSCO Communicator");
  attroff(A_BOLD);
  mvprintw(1, (COLS / 2) - (0.5 * strlen("By Cam Tenny")), "By Cam Tenny");
  attroff(COLOR_PAIR(1));
  win = newwin(height, width, 4, 1);
  wborder(win, '|', '|', '-', '-', '*', '*', '*', '*');
  wrefresh(stdscr);
  wrefresh(win);
  getch();
  delwin(win);
  endwin();
  return 0;
}

compile with -lncurses, if you actually try to run it.

Don't understand why but it shows the border if you create the window like this

Code:

  win = newwin(LINES - 5, COLS - 3, 4, 1);

and that should be just the same as your code. ?????
Kurt