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How to get with Curses the window-size from a resized window?


I tried it this way, but it doesn't work - the returned values from getmaxyx remain always the same.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use 5.012;
use Curses;

my $size_changed = 0;
$SIG{'WINCH'} = sub { $size_changed= 1; };

initscr(); 

my ( $row, $col );
getmaxyx( $row, $col );
addstr( "begin: $row - $col\n" );
refresh();

for ( 0 .. 19 ) {
    addstr( "-------------\n" );
    if ( $size_changed ) {
        getmaxyx( $row, $col );
        addstr( "new: $row - $col\n" );
        $size_changed = 0;
    }
    refresh();
    sleep 1;

}

sleep 3;
endwin();

Solution

  • #!/usr/bin/env perl
    use warnings;
    use 5.012;
    use Curses;
    
    my $size_changed = 0;
    $SIG{'WINCH'} = sub { $size_changed= 1; };
    
    initscr(); 
    
    my ( $row, $col );
    getmaxyx( $row, $col );
    addstr( "begin: $row - $col\n" );
    refresh();
    
    for ( 0 .. 19 ) {
        sleep 2;
        if ( $size_changed ) {
            endwin();
            refresh(); 
            getmaxyx( $row, $col );
            addstr( "new: $row - $col\n" );
            $size_changed = 0;
        }
    }
    
    sleep 3;
    endwin();
    

    ^^^ this worked for me. according to Writing Programs with NCURSES / Using NCURSES under XTERM you are suppose to do "endwin() followed by an refresh()"