X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fcurs_addstr.3x.html;h=050c7a11743904bf5f55c9cdd61b62cff154b2d3;hb=87154b424ea0f67c2965d00e861ddfb134082d94;hp=0b6b4cafcdca34bda819b984c89425d9b0ff4944;hpb=06078d3fa68db669ed37178c01873546b4b28745;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/doc/html/man/curs_addstr.3x.html b/doc/html/man/curs_addstr.3x.html index 0b6b4caf..050c7a11 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/curs_addstr.3x.html +++ b/doc/html/man/curs_addstr.3x.html @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ -
- +These functions write the (null-terminated) character string str on the - given window. It is similar to calling waddch once for each character - in the string. + given window. It is similar to calling waddch once for each byte in + the string. The mv functions perform cursor movement once, before writing any char- acters. Thereafter, the cursor is advanced as a side-effect of writing to the window. - The four functions with n as the last argument write at most n charac- - ters, or until a terminating null is reached. If n is -1, then the en- - tire string will be added. + The four functions with n as the last argument write at most n bytes, + or until a terminating null is reached. If n is -1, then the entire + string will be added.
@@ -92,7 +94,15 @@ Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using wmove, and return an error if the position is outside the window, or if - the window pointer is null. + the window pointer is null. If an error is returned by the wmove, no + characters are added to the window. + + If an error is returned by waddch (e.g., because the window is not + large enough, or an illegal byte sequence was detected) only part of + the string may be added. Aside from that, there is a special case in + waddch where an error may be returned after successfully writing a + character to the lower-right corner of a window when scrollok is dis- + abled.