Re: Need function to mvwin and resize in one step

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, David Whetstone wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> If I have a window in the lower-left of the terminal, and I resize the 
> terminal such that the window's origin is outside the bounds of the terminal, 
> and the window's size is larger than the terminal, there is no way to 
> move/resize the window back into the visible area.  Both mvwin() and 
> wresize() check if the window will exceed the boundaries of the terminal and 
> die if so.

wresize() checks if a subwindow fits into the parent window.
A regular window should work.

> A function that  combines moving and resizing in one step would be a welcome 
> addition, but in the mean-time, is there any way around my dilemma other than 
> deleting the window and creating a new one?

You should be able to construct a function using the existing library
units that would do this.  To be completely general, it would have to
check whether the window to be resized is a subwindow or a regular
window (there's no function for that - just the _SUBWIN flag).  The
functions getmaxyx(), etc., provide a caller with the window's size.

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