The printw, wprintw, mvprintw and mvwprintw routines are
- analogous to printf [see printf(3)]. In effect, the
+ analogous to printf [see printf(3)]. In effect, the
string that would be output by printf is output instead as
though waddstr were used on the given window.
The vwprintw and wv_printw routines are analogous to
- vprintf [see printf(3)] and perform a wprintw using a
+ vprintf [see printf(3)] and perform a wprintw using a
variable argument list. The third argument is a va_list,
a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in
<stdarg.h>.
Routines that return an integer return ERR upon failure
and OK (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than
ERR") upon successful completion.
@@ -91,9 +92,13 @@
enough memory for the buffer used to format the results.
It will return an error if the window pointer is null.
+ Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move-
+ ment using wmove, and return an error if the position is
+ outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.
+
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these func-
tions. The function vwprintw is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN,
and is to be replaced by a function vw_printw using the
@@ -106,17 +111,22 @@