Re: Window alignment issues

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:18:25PM +0300, Daniel Corbe wrote:
> 
> I hope this is the right place to ask general questions as there only
> seems to be this one mailing list associated with the project.
> 
> Given the attached example program, I'm having a rather difficult time
> getting the 3 windows to align properly.  The windows are being painted
> starting around line 51:
> 
>       text = newwin(row - 2, col, 0, 0);
> 
> Given the very simple math involved, I'd expect that to be the right way
> to paint the window; however, it leaves an extra row of blank space just
> above the status bar.  

It seems that your program is using scrolling, and is finishing a line with a 
newline.
That would leave a blank line at the bottom of a window.
 
> So I change that to:
> 
>       text = newwin(row - 1, col, 0, 0);
> 
> And I also make sure it's refreshing in the correct order: text, then
> status and finally input.
> 
> Now the text dump reaches all the way to the bottom (or the top of the
> status bar) but when it gets there the window containing the status bar
> goes *poof*.
> 
> So, I'm obviously missing something.   Do ncurses windows contain empty
> boreders by default?  If so, is there a way to disable them?

no - there are no borders.

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