[Pythonmac-SIG] resizing terminal and curses

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 14-mrt-2006, at 19:00, Nicholas Cole wrote:

> I couldn't find anything in the archives related to this.
>
> Using both Apple's python and a build of python2.4.2, there seems to
> be a bug when using ncurses.  curses.newwin() is supposed to give a
> new window filling the pysical terminal, but if the terminal has been
> resized this does not seem to happen.  Instead, the window seems to be
> the size that the terminal was when curses was initialised.  This is
> not the case on other platforms, where the window created reflects the
> new size of the terminal.  Is this a known bug?
>
> (it seems to affect both xterm and terminal.app)

Linking with my own build of ncurses 5.5 instead of the system curses  
library
seems to solve this issue. I'll see if I can include this in the  
universal
binary build of python 2.4.3.

Ronald

>
> Best wishes,
>
> N.
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