X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fcurs_addstr.3x.html;h=4ce1379bdca400aa7b07575849facc9b63911ba0;hb=87c2c84cbd2332d6d94b12a1dcaf12ad1a51a938;hp=a72e71b0a4f40b82cbabfdfba93e292e88fa367b;hpb=ed646e3f683083e787c6ba773364401dc9fa9d40;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/doc/html/man/curs_addstr.3x.html b/doc/html/man/curs_addstr.3x.html index a72e71b0..4ce1379b 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(3x) is + disabled.