Re: lynx-dev problems with drawing in lynx-2.8.2dev.12

[Vlad Harchev]

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 
>  
>  I've compiled lynx with color style support.
>  I have a problem with it: after it completely draws the screen (it's visible
>  for short period of time, like 0.2 sec) , the screen
>  goes black (ie all characters that were drawn in normal colors became
>  invisible = black) with only currently selected link visible (in the proper
>  color), status text at the bottom and status text at the  right upper corner.
>  I've specified black background for all attributes in my lss file. It looks
>  like it issues some ioctl to the terminal after drawing, and then draws the 
>  active link in the corresponding color.
>  
> ...     
>  Has anybody reported this problem?    
> 
>  Here is my configuration: GCC 2.8.1, linux kernel 2.0.36, ncurses 4.2
> ./configure --enable-forms-options --enable-menu-options \
> --enable-config-info --enable-alt-bindings --enable-kbd-layout \
> --enable-color-style --enable-gzip-help --with-zlib --enable-dired \
> --enable-dired-archive -enable-dired-override --enable-dired-permit \
> --enable-dired-tar --enable-dired-uudecode --enable-dired-zip \
> --enable-dired-gzip --enable-parent-dir-refs --enable-partial 
> 
>  -Vlad

 I found the reason why the problem arised. When I was novice in lynx I played
 with  lynx.cfg and set ENABLE_SCROLLBACK:TRUE in it. I have lynx-2.8 that 
 days, and nothing strange happened for that version, so I forgot about this 
 modification. lynx-2.8.2dev12 I've tested uses the same file, so I changed
 the ENABLE_SCROLLBACK to false as it was and solved my problem. Nevertheless,
 it seems that there is a bug in lynx that causes such problem to appear when
 ENABLE_SCROLLBACK=TRUE. Here is the output of 'infocmp | head -4' on my 
 console:
#       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/l/linux
linux|linux console, 
        am, bce, eo, mir, msgr, xenl, xon, 
        colors#8, it#8, pairs#64, 
 so bce is set.
 
   Here is a .tgz file with two files in it: 
         'before-redraw' - the page that lynx draws first time and
         'after-redraw' - the same page after pressing ^-L.
 Transcripts were made using 'script' on 80x25 console.         
 
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 Best regards, 
 -Vlad