X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fcurs_clear.3x.html;h=e70f7757289e1f41401c40a69d2ba1d52e014474;hb=f7b8e526e024ce141e61633e966255400de67772;hp=bb5ff2269a333c34bc45658bc432c36460070791;hpb=46722468f47c2b77b3987729b4bcf2321cccfd01;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/doc/html/man/curs_clear.3x.html b/doc/html/man/curs_clear.3x.html index bb5ff226..e70f7757 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/curs_clear.3x.html +++ b/doc/html/man/curs_clear.3x.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
@@ -40,11 +40,15 @@+curs_clear(3x) curs_clear(3x) + + +
- erase, werase, clear, wclear, clrtobot, wclrtobot, clr- - toeol, wclrtoeol - clear all or part of a curses window + erase, werase, clear, wclear, clrtobot, wclrtobot, + clrtoeol, wclrtoeol - clear all or part of a curses window@@ -63,21 +67,21 @@
- The erase and werase routines copy blanks to every posi- + The erase and werase routines copy blanks to every posi- tion in the window, clearing the screen. - The clear and wclear routines are like erase and werase, - but they also call clearok, so that the screen is cleared - completely on the next call to wrefresh for that window + The clear and wclear routines are like erase and werase, + but they also call clearok, so that the screen is cleared + completely on the next call to wrefresh for that window and repainted from scratch. - The clrtobot and wclrtobot routines erase from the cursor + The clrtobot and wclrtobot routines erase from the cursor to the end of screen. That is, they erase all lines below - the cursor in the window. Also, the current line to the + the cursor in the window. Also, the current line to the right of the cursor, inclusive, is erased. The clrtoeol and wclrtoeol routines erase the current line - to the right of the cursor, inclusive, to the end of the + to the right of the cursor, inclusive, to the end of the current line. Blanks created by erasure have the current background ren- @@ -86,9 +90,13 @@
- All routines return the integer OK. The SVr4.0 manual - says "or a non-negative integer if immedok is set", but - this appears to be an error. + All routines return the integer OK on success and ERR on + failure. The SVr4.0 manual says "or a non-negative inte- + ger if immedok is set", but this appears to be an error. + + X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa- + tion, functions using a window pointer parameter return an + error if it is null.@@ -99,14 +107,20 @@
- These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, - Issue 4. The standard specifies that they return ERR on + These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, + Issue 4. The standard specifies that they return ERR on failure, but specifies no error conditions. - Some historic curses implementations had, as an undocu- - mented feature, the ability to do the equivalent of - clearok(..., 1) by saying touchwin(stdscr) or - clear(stdscr). This will not work under ncurses. + Some historic curses implementations had, as an undocu- + mented feature, the ability to do the equivalent of + clearok(..., 1) by saying touchwin(stdscr) or clear(std- + scr). This will not work under ncurses. + + This implementation, and others such as Solaris, sets the + current position to 0,0 after erasing via werase() and + wclear(). That fact is not documented in other implemen- + tations, and may not be true of implementations which were + not derived from SVr4 source.@@ -115,53 +129,7 @@ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + curs_clear(3x)