curses trouble no. 21390: resizeterm / init_color

The (N)curses functions resizeterm / init_color do not seem to work. I have
tried multiple vterms (xterm, gnome-terminal, rxvt) and the Linux console :
all of them ignored the resizeterm command. When running in a vterm the
output works IF you resize the window yourself before running the program.
init_color() never worked - either nothing changes or the colors are set to
black. I have tried to run the only curses-based roguelike I know that
attempts to use a non-standard resolution - Xenocide: same result. The
screen does not resize and the display is totally messed up because of this.
I am using Ubuntu 5.10 if that matters.
Has anyone managed to make the resizeterm / init_color stuff work?
If so please tell me how!

copx <invalid.RemoveThis@invalid.com> schrieb:
> The (N)curses functions resizeterm / init_color do not seem to work. I have

What do you want to use resizeterm for? Seems iffy.

I remember when I first tried color in ncurses my experience was that it
just didn't seem to work, but I forget what the problem was. Everything
about ncurses seems to be counter-intuitive.

If you don't include your code (or somehow describe exactly what you're
doing), nobody wil be able to help you.

bool Term::Init() {
initscr();
if( has_colors() == FALSE ) {
endwin();
return false;
}

cbreak(); /* disables input line buffering */
// keypad(stdscr,TRUE); // will need this to
// get function and arrow keys
noecho(); /* user input not echoed to screen */
nonl(); /* no newline; "faster" ~ 'man nonl' */
// curs_set(2); /* set cursor to 'very visible' */

/* colors! */
start_color();
init_pair(1,COLOR_WHITE,COLOR_BLACK);
....
}

And to draw a character:

wattron(level_window,COLOR_PAIR(tile.color);
mvwaddch(level_window,j,i,tile.view);
watteroff(level_window,COLOR_PAIR(tile.color);

Here level_window is a WINDOW *, tile.view is a char, and tile.color is
an int.


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Jim Strathmeyer