Re: in_wch and add_wch

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Sadrul H Chowdhury wrote:

> On 9/3/06, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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;
>
>
> It's a much nicer work around. And I noticed you have also patched the bug.
> Great!

no problem (thanks for the bug report)

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