Environment:

• PDCurses latest version
• Windows 10
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

Problem

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,

• the _maxx and _maxy members of WINDOW are set only when creating a window (including duplicating a window).
• stdscr is a window

If 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:

• curses_version
• is_termresized (should have been is_term_resized)
• resize_term
• wresize