From 919aeaaed55413f1f416dad0ae17006fb0c9af31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zlatin Balevsky <zlatinb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:55:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] preserve chat box contents across openings of the chat window

---
 .../main/groovy/com/muwire/clilanterna/ChatConsoleView.groovy  | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cli-lanterna/src/main/groovy/com/muwire/clilanterna/ChatConsoleView.groovy b/cli-lanterna/src/main/groovy/com/muwire/clilanterna/ChatConsoleView.groovy
index ddd437ef..24169329 100644
--- a/cli-lanterna/src/main/groovy/com/muwire/clilanterna/ChatConsoleView.groovy
+++ b/cli-lanterna/src/main/groovy/com/muwire/clilanterna/ChatConsoleView.groovy
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ class ChatConsoleView extends BasicWindow {
         this.core = core
         this.model = model
         this.textGUI = textGUI
-        this.textBox = new TextBox(terminalSize,"", TextBox.Style.MULTI_LINE)
+        TextBox textBox = model.textBox == null ? new TextBox(terminalSize,"", TextBox.Style.MULTI_LINE) : model.textBox 
+        this.textBox = textBox
         model.textBox = textBox
         model.start()
         this.sayField = new TextBox("", TextBox.Style.SINGLE_LINE)