The refresh and wrefresh routines (or wnoutrefresh and doupdate) must
be called to get actual output to the terminal, as other routines
merely manipulate data structures. The routine wrefresh copies the
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
the cursor for that window.
-
The wnoutrefresh and doupdate routines allow multiple updates with more
efficiency than wrefresh alone. In addition to all the window
structures, curses keeps two data structures representing the terminal
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
PORTABILITY below for a warning about exploiting this behavior.)
-
The wredrawln routine indicates to curses that some screen lines are
corrupted and should be thrown away before anything is written over
them. It touches the indicated lines (marking them changed). The
@@ -123,19 +123,19 @@
- Routines that return an integer return ERR upon failure, and OK (SVr4
- only specifies "an integer value other than ERR") upon successful
+ These routines return the integer ERR upon failure and OK (SVr4
+ specifies only "an integer value other than ERR") upon successful
completion.
- X/Open does not define any error conditions. In this implementation
+ X/Open Curses does not specify any error conditions. In this
+ implementation
wnoutrefresh
- returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if the
- window is really a pad.
+ returns ERR if the window pointer is null, or if the window is
+ really a pad.
wredrawln
- returns an error if the associated call to touchln returns an
- error.
+ return ERR if the associated call to touchln returns ERR.
- The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.
+ X/Open Curses, Issue 4 describes these functions.
Whether wnoutrefresh copies to the virtual screen the entire contents
of a window or just its changed portions has never been well-documented
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
-ncurses 6.4 2023-09-30 curs_refresh(3x)
+ncurses 6.5 2024-05-25 curs_refresh(3x)