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+<STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG>
- print formatted output in <STRONG>curses</STRONG> windows
<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
- <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>printw(char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
- <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>wprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
- <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvprintw(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
- <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
- <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>vwprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> <STRONG>varglist);</STRONG>
- <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>vw_printw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> <STRONG>varglist);</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>printw(const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>wprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvprintw(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>vwprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> <STRONG>var-</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>glist);</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>vw_printw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> <STRONG>var-</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>glist);</STRONG>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
- The <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG> and <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG> routines are
- analogous to <STRONG>printf</STRONG> [see <STRONG><A HREF="printf.3S.html">printf(3S)</A></STRONG>]. In effect, the
+ The <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG> and <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG> routines are
+ analogous to <STRONG>printf</STRONG> [see <STRONG><A HREF="printf.3.html">printf(3)</A></STRONG>]. In effect, the
string that would be output by <STRONG>printf</STRONG> is output instead as
though <STRONG>waddstr</STRONG> were used on the given window.
- The <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG> and <STRONG>wv_printw</STRONG> routines are analogous to
- <STRONG>vprintf</STRONG> [see <STRONG><A HREF="printf.3S.html">printf(3S)</A></STRONG>] and perform a <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG> using a
- variable argument list. The third argument is a <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>,
- a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in
+ The <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG> and <STRONG>wv_printw</STRONG> routines are analogous to
+ <STRONG>vprintf</STRONG> [see <STRONG><A HREF="printf.3.html">printf(3)</A></STRONG>] and perform a <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG> using a
+ variable argument list. The third argument is a <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>,
+ a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in
<STRONG><stdarg.h></STRONG>.
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<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
- Routines that return an integer return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure
- and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than
+ Routines that return an integer return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure
+ and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than
<STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful completion.
+ X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa-
+ tion, an error may be returned if it cannot allocate
+ 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 <STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and return an error if the position is
+ outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.
+
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<H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><stdarg.h></STRONG> interface. The Single Unix Specification, Ver-
sion 2 states that <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG> is preferred to <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>
since the latter requires including <STRONG><varargs.h></STRONG>, which
- cannot be used in the same file as <STRONG><stdarg.h></STRONG>. This
- implementation uses <STRONG><stdarg.h></STRONG> for both, because that
- header is included in <STRONG><curses.h</STRONG>>.
+ cannot be used in the same file as <STRONG><stdarg.h></STRONG>. This im-
+ plementation uses <STRONG><stdarg.h></STRONG> for both, because that header
+ is included in <STRONG><curses.h</STRONG>>.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="printf.3S.html">printf(3S)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>vprintf(3S)</STRONG>
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+ <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="printf.3.html">printf(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>vprintf(3)</STRONG>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
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