Re: moving windows offscreen

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 02:50:41PM -0400, Patrick wrote:
> On 08/14/2016 02:15 PM, Patrick wrote:
> >Hi Guys
> >
> >I am using multiple windows. I am actually using ncurses with GnuCOBOL.
> >
> >I have have a menubar and drop down menuitems working but the code
> >is a bit cumbersome. I have been creating a new window each time a
> >menubar button triggers one. I have been destroying it afterwards.
> >
> >We can't hide/show windows like we can in GTK etc but is it a
> >reasonable workaround to move the window to some Y X coordinates
> >so that it is no longer view-able and moving it back to achieve
> >show/hide functionality ?
> >
> >Thanks-Patrick
> >
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> Shoot. Sorry everyone, I did not read the description of mvwin
> properly. This can't be done. Does anyone have any pointers on how
> to achieve a hide/show effect? rather then create/destroy

you could have two windows in the same location, and do a touch/refresh
on one...

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