LINES and COLS?

[PopeFelix]

I'm brand new to ncurses programming. Apparently there are two constants, LINES and COLS, that allow you to determine the screen size. How do I access these using goncurses?

[rthornton128]

Strictly speaking, LINES and COLS is used to get the size of the screen. GetMaxYX is used to get the size of windows. Unlike in C, in Goncurses you have a pointer to the screen and it's treated like a window, so you can actually fetch the size of the screen that way.

Example:

goncurses/examples/getstr/getstr.go

Line 23 in db8d4cd

row, col := stdscr.MaxYX()

[kpeters-cbsi]

Thanks!