On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 4:40 PM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > > On 24Feb2019 14:30, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >What you say makes sense and supports much of what I had concluded > >from my coding experiments. However, I still cannot get the function > >call, curses.resizeterm(), to do anything meaningful, which suggests > >that I still do not truly understand its usage. > > Likely so. The important thing you may be missing is that curses > _itself_ calls resizeterm() automatically when it gets a SIGWINCH, so in > normal situations you do not need to call this function. AHA! It is exactly that. How am I to know this from reading the existing Python 3 docs??? I spent *much* time trying different coding efforts to get resizeterm() to do something, ANYTHING, when all along this was happening automatically behind the scenes. > Because of this, getmaxyx() is always correct for the size of the > terminal. > > Secondarily, resizeterm() does not make a change to the terminal itself. I realized this before I sent my original post. I really think the name chosen, resizeterm, is a very misleading name! > >I created the > >following script to test things out: > [...] > > I've modified your script. Please try the script appended below. The > short answer is that resizeterm() is _not_ normally useful to you, the > programmer; it will only be useful if curses does not get to notice > terminal size changes - _then_ you could use it to provide that > facility. Thanks for the additional clarity provided with your modifications! boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
