Re: Restarting Curses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Tim Mooney wrote:

> In regard to: Restarting Curses, Nicholas Cole said (at 3:30pm on Sep 3, 
> 2009):
> > I have a strange problem.  I have code that can start up and close
> > down curses making sure the terminal is reset.  But if I call it a
> > second time, the terminal is not properly reset.  I'm using python,
> > but I suspect it would be the same in C.  What might I be doing wrong?
>
> It's been years and years since I've done any curses programming so I'm
> a little rusty, but I do remember this hard-learned lesson: you only want
> to call initscr() ONCE per program.

for portable programs, yes.

ncurses happens to allow initscr more than once, but that's
something that other curses implementations do not support.

Even with ncurses, there's the possibility of (a) python interacting in 
some way, or (b) a bug in ncurses.

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