Re: LP flag

[Thomas Dickey]

>       From: Oliver
>    Subject: LP flag
>       Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:49:53 +1200
>      _________________________________________________________________
> 
>    Hi,  I  have  made  a  kind  of pseudo terminal for a lcd project I am
>    working  on.  Everything  is working great except the last char in the
>    last  column  of the last line is not printed, all others are printed.
>    ie this is a 16 column by 4 rows and if I use this code:
>    mvprintw(0, 0, "0123456789abcdef");
>    mvprintw(1, 0, "0123456789abcdef");
>    mvprintw(2, 0, "0123456789abcdef");
>    mvprintw(3, 0, "0123456789abcdef");
>    I get the following on the display
>    0123456789abcdef
>    0123456789abcdef
>    0123456789abcdef
>    0123456789abcde
>    the  last f is missing. After doing some reading I think this might be
>    related   to   the `LP'   flag  as  I  am  using  the  'am'  flag  in
>    my implementation.  I tried adding the LP flag after the am flag, but
>    tic  rejecteds  the  flag  ""vtlcd", line 4, col 19, terminal 'vtlcd':
>    unknown capability 'LP'"
> 
>    What am I doing wrong?
> 
>    btw  my  term  file  looks like this (it may not be prefect, but apart
>    from this issue it works):
>    vtlcd|,
>            bw, am, LP,
>            cols#16, it#4, lines#4,
>            clear=\EJ, cr=^M,
>            cub1=\ED, cud1=\EB, cuf1=\EC,
>            cuu1=\EA, cnorm=\Ev, civis=\EV,
>            sgr0=\Ea, blink=\Eb,
>            home=\EH, ht=^I, ind=^J, kbs=^H,
>            kcub1=\E[D, kcud1=\E[B, kcuf1=\E[C, kcuu1=\E[A,
>            nel=^M^J,

ncurses won't write to the lower-right corner unless it can see how to
prevent the cursor from wrapping (and forcing the display to scroll).
Usually that's done by one of the insert-mode features - depends on
what your actual terminal supports.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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