On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 4:28 PM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote:
> Is the painting of the screen with spaces actually required? I would > have thought not (again, untested). The main window (stdscr) should > start filled with spaces. I had read this along the way, but had forgotten it. > [Reads more closely...] probably you want to call bkgd() or wbkgd() > instead. "man curs_bkgd" says: > > bkgd > The bkgd and wbkgd functions set the background property of the > current or specified window and then apply this setting to every > character position in that window: > · The rendition of every character on the screen is changed to > the new background rendition. > · Wherever the former background character appears, it is changed > to the new background character. I had seen this, but I have been giving way too much credence to the names given to these methods. This is the second time I have been badly burned by the names used. I had ASSumed that if there is a bkgdset() method, that the window attributes need to be initialized first if one is not satisfied with the default behavior. And I *did* try using bkgdset() by itself without manually populating spaces, but it did not change the color of anything but the window border I had used in my original trial code. I tried your suggestion with bkgd() and it worked beautifully. BTW, my Linux Mint installation did *not* have the man pages for ncurses, even though it was installed. I had to manually fetch the man pages myself. -- boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
