Curses sorely lacking an event loop?

[Michael Zawrotny]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:27:17 GMT, James Stroud wrote:
> 
>  Is curses really lacking an event loop? Do I have to write my own? I 
>  infer from the docs that this is the case. For example, I want the 
>  screen to be updated with resize but I find myself waiting for getch() 
>  if I want user input, and so the screen must remain ugly until the user 
>  presses a key. What am I missing?

I'm not a curses expert, but I can answer this part.  When the screen
is resized, SIGWINCH is sent to the process.  You can use the normal
signal handling apparatus to install a handler that updates the screen
when that signal arrives.


Mike

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