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The <STRONG>wredrawln</STRONG> routine indicates to <STRONG>curses</STRONG> that some screen
lines are corrupted and should be thrown away before any-
thing is written over them. It touches the indicated
- lines (marking them changed). The routine <STRONG>redrawwin</STRONG>()
+ lines (marking them changed). The routine <STRONG>redrawwin</STRONG>
touches the entire window.
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these func-
tions.
- Whether <STRONG>wnoutrefresh()</STRONG> copies to the virtual screen the
- entire contents of a window or just its changed portions
- has never been well-documented in historic curses versions
+ Whether <STRONG>wnoutrefresh</STRONG> copies to the virtual screen the en-
+ tire contents of a window or just its changed portions has
+ never been well-documented in historic curses versions
(including SVr4). It might be unwise to rely on either
behavior in programs that might have to be linked with
other curses implementations. Instead, you can do an ex-
- plicit <STRONG>touchwin()</STRONG> before the <STRONG>wnoutrefresh()</STRONG> call to guar-
- antee an entire-contents copy anywhere.
+ plicit <STRONG>touchwin</STRONG> before the <STRONG>wnoutrefresh</STRONG> call to guarantee
+ an entire-contents copy anywhere.
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