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Re: Truncate instead of wrap
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Truncate instead of wrap |
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Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:28:06 -0500 |
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:51:36AM -0800, Virchanza wrote:
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> If the terminal is too skinny and a line is too wide to fit on the screen, I
> want the line to be truncated instead of it overflowing onto the next line.
> Is there a simple setting to do this?
no - waddch and waddstr wrap "always".
(you could write a similar function that calls waddch and checks the position
after each character using getyx).
> Also, if it's physically possible, is there away of resizing the terminal to
> make sure that it is of a minimum specified width?
not in ncurses
(some terminal emulators can respond to control sequences that do this)
> Another little problem. Under Linux, using the terminal emulator that comes
> with the Xfce Desktop Environment, if I start my program full screen and
> then unmaximise it, the window goes blank and remains blank. Should the
> window not be repainted automatically?
That depends on the application that's running inside the terminal.
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