Re: Is there a portable way to copy SCREEN

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Bryan Christ wrote:

> Thomas
>
> I noticed that scr_dump() is implemented as basically putwin().
> Shouldn't I be able to simply do a scr_dump() then a getwin() as a means
> of copying a SCREEN to a WINDOW?

not really - that only copies the character-cell information (which
I already noted you could do in-memory via documented calls).

SCREENs contain the current (curscr), working (newscr) and standard
window (stdscr) as well as the terminal description, the input FIFO,
and various flags set as a side effect of working with those.

> Cameron, what does this look like on pdcurses?
>
> Bryan
>
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 17:49 +0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Bryan Christ wrote:
> >
> > > If I wanted to copy the contents of a SCREEN to a WINDOW, is there a
> > > good way of doing this?  I am hesitant to simply copy struct screen ->
> > > *_curscr
> >
> > SCREEN and WINDOW are different types.
> >
> > From the outset, everyone's implemented SCREEN as an opaque type.
> > So you can't copy it...

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