ncurses

Someone must know how i can get the size of a window/terminal using curses/ncurses.
I was told that its stored in an environment variable, so you would use getenv() or whatever to retrieve it. Does anyone know which environment variables this nis stored in or should I ask this in the Unix forum?

You have to set curses up first, otherwise it won't know.

You definitely have to have called initscr(), and you probably have to have called refresh() at least once.

The function you're looking for is getmaxyx(stdscr, x, y)

Look it up in the doc for more info.

I hate curses; it sucks :)

Mark

Thanks! Thats exactly what i needed.


Im using curses because I need to write a program which i can run from a text terminal and need a little more output power than standard printf/cout provide.