PDCurses provides a function getmaxxy
to get the maximum x and y coordinates of the screen. This returns correct values on startup, but if I resize the window with the mouse and then call getmaxxy
again, I get back the same values.
Is this a bug/limitation in pdcurses? Is there a windows specific way to get this information instead?
I have also tried this windows specific solution and it too, always returns the startup values: Getting terminal size in c for windows?
Reading the source,
_maxx
and _maxy
members of WINDOW
are set only when creating a window (including duplicating a window).stdscr
is a windowIf you have resized the screen, then you should tell PDCurses about the new size, using resize_term
(a function adapted from ncurses), e.g.,
resize_term(new_lines, new_cols);
and that recreates the standard windows such as stdscr
.
For what it's worth, PDCurses provides these functions for compatibility with ncurses: