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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>initscr</STRONG>, <STRONG>newterm</STRONG>, <STRONG>endwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>isendwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>set_term</STRONG>, <STRONG>delscreen</STRONG> -
+ <STRONG>initscr</STRONG>, <STRONG>newterm</STRONG>, <STRONG>endwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>isendwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>set_term</STRONG>, <STRONG>delscreen</STRONG> -
<STRONG>curses</STRONG> screen initialization and manipulation routines
The initscr code determines the terminal type and initial-
izes all <STRONG>curses</STRONG> data structures. <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> also causes the
- first call to <STRONG>refresh</STRONG> to clear the screen. If errors
- occur, <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> writes an appropriate error message to
- standard error and exits; otherwise, a pointer is returned
- to <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG>.
+ first call to <STRONG>refresh</STRONG> to clear the screen. If errors oc-
+ cur, <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> writes an appropriate error message to stan-
+ dard error and exits; otherwise, a pointer is returned to
+ <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG>.
A program that outputs to more than one terminal should
use the <STRONG>newterm</STRONG> routine for each terminal instead of
same terminal, the first terminal referred to must be the
last one for which <STRONG>endwin</STRONG> is called.
- A program should always call <STRONG>endwin</STRONG> before exiting or
- escaping from <STRONG>curses</STRONG> mode temporarily. This routine
- restores tty modes, moves the cursor to the lower left-
- hand corner of the screen and resets the terminal into the
+ A program should always call <STRONG>endwin</STRONG> before exiting or es-
+ caping from <STRONG>curses</STRONG> mode temporarily. This routine re-
+ stores tty modes, moves the cursor to the lower left-hand
+ corner of the screen and resets the terminal into the
proper non-visual mode. Calling <STRONG>refresh</STRONG> or <STRONG>doupdate</STRONG> after
a temporary escape causes the program to resume visual
mode.
terminals. The screen reference <STRONG>new</STRONG> becomes the new cur-
rent terminal. The previous terminal is returned by the
routine. This is the only routine which manipulates
- <STRONG>SCREEN</STRONG> pointers; all other routines affect only the
- current terminal.
+ <STRONG>SCREEN</STRONG> pointers; all other routines affect only the cur-
+ rent terminal.
The <STRONG>delscreen</STRONG> routine frees storage associated with the
<STRONG>SCREEN</STRONG> data structure. The <STRONG>endwin</STRONG> routine does not do
Routines that return pointers always return <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> on error.
+ X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa-
+ tion <STRONG>endwin</STRONG> returns an error if the terminal was not ini-
+ tialized.
+
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+ <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">curs_initscr(3x)</A></STRONG>
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