Re: in_wch and add_wch

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Sadrul H Chowdhury wrote:

> I am currently using a hack to work around this problem. Instead of doing
> add_wch(), I am delch()ing W times from that location (where W is the
> column-width of the character), changing the attribute, and then
> ins_wch()ing, and it seems to work! The code follows:

The problem is that in an earlier fix, I used part of the attribute value 
to encode multi-column data.  You should be able to use a simpler 
workaround, e.g.,

>   for (i = 0; i < 12; i += w) {
>       if (mvin_wch(0, i, &ch) == OK) {

            ch.attr &= A_ATTRIBUTES;

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