Using more lines than the window has with ncurses

Question

I have recently been introduced to ncurses for asynchronous keyboard key listening, and getting on well with it. One issue i\'m facing is that you can only have tex

Answer 1

scroll(). You have to set scrollok(win, TRUE) first. Actually if you just want to spew data like a normal terminal you only need to set scrollok() by itself.

#include 

int main(void)
{
    int i = 0;

    initscr();

    scrollok(stdscr,TRUE);

    while(1)
    {
        printw("%d - lots and lots of lines flowing down the terminal\n", i);
        ++i;
        refresh();
    }

    endwin();
    return 0;
}