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sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal
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Entire Window Flashing #767

Open swindlesmccoop opened 1 year ago

swindlesmccoop commented 1 year ago

I'm not sure how to describe it, so I just recorded a video: https://youtu.be/yufWiBUPYg8 I'm using DWM on X11 on OpenBSD. This is inside of a VirtualBox virtual machine as well. Not sure if the same error persists on real hardware, no current way to test.

andmarti1424 commented 1 year ago

It probably has something to do with the X11 or ncurses on that particular system. Could you please test it outside X? And/or with another graphics card on the VM?

idr4n commented 1 year ago

I just installed sc-im manually on macOS Ventura 13.1 following the instructions and I am facing the same behavior. I didn't get any errors when installing though.

swindlesmccoop commented 1 year ago

It probably has something to do with the X11 or ncurses on that particular system. Could you please test it outside X? And/or with another graphics card on the VM?

Yeah, I tested it outside of X and...it kinda just doesn't work. Not sure how to describe it but it should be in an entirely different issue. However, there was no flashing, so that's a plus.

andmarti1424 commented 1 year ago

@swindlesmccoop what does not work? if you dont get the flashing on X then it has something to do with your X, the WM or the virtual terminal..

swindlesmccoop commented 1 year ago

Yeah, I've resolved the flashing issue. However, the software itself simply does not seem to work properly. I haven't finished my testing but when I do, I'll make a new issue since it's entirely separate.

renjub commented 1 year ago

@swindlesmccoop, How did you resolve the flashing issue? I am facing same issue in CentOs

swindlesmccoop commented 1 year ago

I resolved the flashing issue by going to a TTY. It's some kind of terminal or WM issue that I haven't diagnosed yet.

hymie0 commented 1 year ago

Just want to say that I am seeing the same issue on my freshly-updated copy sc-im in my X session.

So far I've determined that the "blink" commands in tui.c and file.c are not the problem.

The tags/0.8.1 version works correctly , but the tags/v0.8.2 (and beyond) version blinks.

That's where I'm stuck.

Amooti73 commented 1 year ago

I have the same issue, but since I just wanted to convert a csv to an sc file, I could do it in spite of the flashing. However, I proceeded to try sc-im on kitty and there was no flashing. This is on openbsd 7.2 with dwm.

bartenbach commented 1 year ago

Seeing this exact same problem!

Edit: Well, cheap solution for gnome-terminal is to go to settings and disable blinking text. I don't really know why I would need that anyway.

cskeeters commented 2 months ago

The wiki page Building-SC-IM prompted macos users to install homebrew/dupes/ncurses, but if you do that, you get an error:

Error: homebrew/dupes was deprecated. This tap is now empty and all its contents were either deleted or migrated.

I changed the command to be brew install ncurses. It looks like this software includes ncursesw. Not sure if the formula in dupes did something different.

I can confirm with this package,

  1. the screen does flash in iTerm2, and
  2. the background of the NORMAL style is white, even if it's set to black in scimrc.

If I use Alacritty, the text does not flash, but the background of normal cells is still white.