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From: wish.eye.gnu@io.org (Jan Bonk Blink Boink W. Perry Bonk Blink)
Subject: [inform] returning from a menu
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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 00:27:08 GMT

When returning from my "help" menu (the menu, when displayed, takes up the
top half of the screen-- has about six options), the room description the
person was in when calling the menu is re-displayed.

If the description is long (ie. more than half a screen full) the
description scrolls "under" the blank top half of the screen.

I'm not sure how the menu draws, but it seems that it creates a big window
on the top half of the screen (for cursor positioning?)... and the window
is cleared when you exit, but it is not reset until the status bar at the
top is again drawn... so the description scrolls under this large blank
window.

Shouldn't the status line be redrawn first, to reset the window, and then
re-display the room description?

Is this guess correct? And if so, is there an easy way to fix it?

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