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  41 <H1 class="no-header">curs_printw 3x</H1>
  42 <PRE>
  43 <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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  48 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
  49        <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG>
  50        - print formatted output in <STRONG>curses</STRONG> windows
  51
  52
  53 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
  54        <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
  55
  56        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>printw(const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
  57        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>wprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
  58        <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>
  59        <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>
  60        <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
  61        <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>
  62        <STRONG>glist);</STRONG>
  63        <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>
  64        <STRONG>glist);</STRONG>
  65
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  67 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
  68        The  <STRONG>printw</STRONG>,  <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG> and <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG> routines are
  69        analogous to  <STRONG>printf</STRONG>  [see  <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>].   In  effect,  the
  70        string that would be output by <STRONG>printf</STRONG> is output instead as
  71        though <STRONG>waddstr</STRONG> were used on the given window.
  72
  73        The <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>  and  <STRONG>wv_printw</STRONG>  routines  are  analogous  to
  74        <STRONG>vprintf</STRONG>  [see  <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>]  and  perform  a <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG> using a
  75        variable argument list.  The third argument is a  <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>,
  76        a   pointer   to  a  list  of  arguments,  as  defined  in
  77        <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG>.
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  80 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
  81        Routines that return an integer return  <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>  upon  failure
  82        and  <STRONG>OK</STRONG>  (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than
  83        <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful completion.
  84
  85        X/Open defines no error conditions.  In  this  implementa-
  86        tion,  an  error  may  be  returned  if it cannot allocate
  87        enough memory for the buffer used to format  the  results.
  88        It will return an error if the window pointer is null.
  89
  90        Functions  with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move-
  91        ment using <STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and return an error if the  position  is
  92        outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.
  93
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  95 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
  96        The  XSI  Curses  standard,  Issue 4 describes these func-
  97        tions.  The function <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG> is marked TO  BE  WITHDRAWN,
  98        and  is  to  be replaced by a function <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG> using the
  99        <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG> interface.  The Single Unix Specification, Ver-
 100        sion  2  states  that  <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG>  is preferred to <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>
 101        since the latter  requires  including  <STRONG>&lt;varargs.h&gt;</STRONG>,  which
 102        cannot  be  used in the same file as <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG>.  This im-
 103        plementation uses <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG> for both, because that header
 104        is included in <STRONG>&lt;curses.h</STRONG>&gt;.
 105
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 107 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
 108        <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>, <STRONG>vprintf(3)</STRONG>
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 112                                                         <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
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