help needed

[Roberto De Leo]

Hi,
I am the mantainer of the MoviX project (movix.sf.net).

I am developing for my project an mplayer console interface using the 
Perl/Curses interface and I really liked the Curses library [it is my 
first time I use it] but I found an annoying problem I don't know how to 
solve. I guess you are not the right guys to ask about Perl - Curses 
questions but I think the solution of my problem has to do only with the 
ncurses library, not with Perl

The fact is that I need sometimes to do a
   system "clear";
command to make the screen black during the playback of a movie, and did 
not manage to find any curses function to redraw the whole menu after a 
"clear".
Also, from time to time, while using the vesa framebuffer at 1024x768, 
some line of the screen "jumps" and the menu appears like broken in two 
halfs.
Also in this case it would be nice to know a function that redraws 
everything as it was before.

Any hint would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Roberto De Leo