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<H1 class="no-header">curs_scroll 3x</H1>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
- <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>scroll(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win);</STRONG>
- <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>scrl(int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
- <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>wscrl(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>scroll(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
+
+ <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>scrl(int</STRONG> <EM>n</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>wscrl(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>n</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
This involves moving the lines in the window character image structure.
The current cursor position is not changed.
- For these functions to work, scrolling must be enabled via <STRONG>scrollok</STRONG>.
+ For these functions to work, scrolling must be enabled via <STRONG>scrol-</STRONG>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="scrollok.3x.html">lok(3x)</A></STRONG>.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
X/Open defines no error conditions.
- This implementation returns an error if the window pointer is null, or
- if scrolling is not enabled in the window, e.g., with <STRONG>scrollok</STRONG>.
+ This implementation returns an error if the window pointer is null, or
+ if scrolling is not enabled in the window, e.g., with <STRONG><A HREF="scrollok.3x.html">scrollok(3x)</A></STRONG>.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
Note that <STRONG>scrl</STRONG> and <STRONG>scroll</STRONG> may be macros.
The SVr4 documentation says that the optimization of physically
- scrolling immediately if the scroll region is the entire screen "is"
- performed, not "may be" performed. This implementation deliberately
- does not guarantee that this will occur, to leave open the possibility
+ scrolling immediately if the scroll region is the entire screen "is"
+ performed, not "may be" performed. This implementation deliberately
+ does not guarantee that this will occur, to leave open the possibility
of smarter optimization of multiple scroll actions on the next update.
- Neither the SVr4 nor the XSI documentation specify whether the current
+ Neither the SVr4 nor the XSI documentation specify whether the current
attribute or current color-pair of blanks generated by the scroll func-
tion is zeroed. Under this implementation it is.