Creatin a "main" window with ncurses for a game - window

Question

I'm trying to creat a window to be as a border for my entire game. So it will be the "main" window. I found out that the best way to do it is to create a "ghost" window and another, the real one which you'll use, inside of it with slighty less dimensions.
But I still can't proprely craate it: Heres my best solution yet.
#include <ncurses.h>
WINDOW* createWindow(int, int, int, int);
WINDOW* createRealWindow(int, int, int, int);
int main ()
{
initscr();
cbreak();
char str[50];
WINDOW *back_window, *real_window;
int height=12, width=80;
int x=(COLS-width)/2, y=(LINES-height)/2;
back_window = createWindow(x, y, width, height);
real_window = createRealWindow(x+1, y+1, width, height);
wprintw(real_window, "Type: ");
wgetstr(real_window, str);
wrefresh(real_window);
wprintw(real_window, "You typed %s.", str);
wrefresh(real_window);
napms(5000);
endwin();
return 0;
}
WINDOW* createWindow(int x, int y, int height, int width)
{
WINDOW *local;
local = newwin(width, height, y, x);
box(local, 0, 0);
wrefresh(local);
return local;
}
WINDOW* createRealWindow(int x, int y, int height, int width)
{
WINDOW *local;
local = newwin(width-2, height-2, y+1, x+1);
box(local, ' ', ' ');
wrefresh(local);
return local;
}
Here is my output:
my output
Thanks guys!
Edit: I've found the solution with the code down below, but I don't know how this will behave in others people computers with different resolutions. Ideas? PS: I use 1920 x 1080.
int main ()
{
initscr();
cbreak();
char str[50];
WINDOW *back_window, *real_window;
int height=22, width=78;
int x=(COLS-width-1)/2, y=(LINES-height-2)/2;
back_window = createWindow(x, y, width, height);
real_window = createRealWindow(x+1, y+1, width, height);
wprintw(real_window, "Type: ");
wgetstr(real_window, str);
wrefresh(real_window);
wprintw(real_window, "You typed %s.", str);
wrefresh(real_window);
napms(5000);
endwin();
return 0;
}
WINDOW* createWindow(int x, int y, int height, int width)
{
WINDOW *local;
local = newwin(width+2, height+2, y, x);
box(local, 0, 0);
wrefresh(local);
return local;
}
WINDOW* createRealWindow(int x, int y, int height, int width)
{
WINDOW *local;
local = newwin(width, height, y, x);
wrefresh(local);
return local;
}

Answer 1

The back_window did not show up because the real_window obscured it (due to size/position). But using subwin is the preferred way to do this:
#include <ncurses.h>
int main ()
{
initscr();
cbreak();
char str[50];
WINDOW *back_window, *real_window;
int height=12, width=80;
int x=(COLS-width)/2, y=(LINES-height)/2;
back_window = newwin(height, width, y, x);
box(back_window, 0, 0);
wrefresh(back_window);
real_window = subwin(back_window, height-2, width-2, y+1, x+1);
wprintw(real_window, "Type: ");
wgetstr(real_window, str);
wrefresh(real_window);
wprintw(real_window, "You typed %s.", str);
wrefresh(real_window);
napms(5000);
endwin();
return 0;
}