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<H1 class="no-header">curs_window 3x</H1>
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-<STRONG><A HREF="curs_window.3x.html">curs_window(3x)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="curs_window.3x.html">curs_window(3x)</A></STRONG>
+<STRONG><A HREF="curs_window.3x.html">curs_window(3x)</A></STRONG>
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_window.3x.html">curs_window(3x)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>newwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>delwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>subwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>derwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvderwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>dupwin</STRONG>,
- <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG>, <STRONG>syncok</STRONG>, <STRONG>wcursyncup</STRONG>, <STRONG>wsyncdown</STRONG> - create <STRONG>curses</STRONG>
- windows
+ <STRONG>newwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>delwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>subwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>derwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvderwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>dupwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>syncok</STRONG>, <STRONG>wcursyncup</STRONG>, <STRONG>wsyncdown</STRONG> - create <STRONG>curses</STRONG> windows
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-newwin">newwin</a></H3><PRE>
- Calling <STRONG>newwin</STRONG> creates and returns a pointer to a new win-
- dow with the given number of lines and columns. The upper
- left-hand corner of the window is at
+ Calling <STRONG>newwin</STRONG> creates and returns a pointer to a new window with the
+ given number of lines and columns. The upper left-hand corner of the
+ window is at
line <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>y</EM>,
column <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>x</EM>
<STRONG>LINES</STRONG> <STRONG>-</STRONG> <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>y</EM> and
<STRONG>COLS</STRONG> <STRONG>-</STRONG> <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>x</EM>.
- A new full-screen window is created by calling
- <STRONG>newwin(0,0,0,0)</STRONG>.
+ A new full-screen window is created by calling <STRONG>newwin(0,0,0,0)</STRONG>.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-delwin">delwin</a></H3><PRE>
- Calling <STRONG>delwin</STRONG> deletes the named window, freeing all memo-
- ry associated with it (it does not actually erase the win-
- dow's screen image). Subwindows must be deleted before
- the main window can be deleted.
+ Calling <STRONG>delwin</STRONG> deletes the named window, freeing all memory associated
+ with it (it does not actually erase the window's screen image). Sub-
+ windows must be deleted before the main window can be deleted.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-mvwin">mvwin</a></H3><PRE>
- Calling <STRONG>mvwin</STRONG> moves the window so that the upper left-hand
- corner is at position (<EM>x</EM>, <EM>y</EM>). If the move would cause the
- window to be off the screen, it is an error and the window
- is not moved. Moving subwindows is allowed, but should be
- avoided.
+ Calling <STRONG>mvwin</STRONG> moves the window so that the upper left-hand corner is at
+ position (<EM>x</EM>, <EM>y</EM>). If the move would cause the window to be off the
+ screen, it is an error and the window is not moved. Moving subwindows
+ is allowed, but should be avoided.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-subwin">subwin</a></H3><PRE>
- Calling <STRONG>subwin</STRONG> creates and returns a pointer to a new win-
- dow with the given number of lines, <EM>nlines</EM>, and columns,
- <EM>ncols</EM>. The window is at position (<EM>begin</EM>_<EM>y</EM>, <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>x</EM>) on
- the screen. The subwindow shares memory with the window
- <EM>orig</EM>, so that changes made to one window will affect both
- windows. When using this routine, it is necessary to call
- <STRONG>touchwin</STRONG> or <STRONG>touchline</STRONG> on <EM>orig</EM> before calling <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> on
- the subwindow.
+ Calling <STRONG>subwin</STRONG> creates and returns a pointer to a new window with the
+ given number of lines, <EM>nlines</EM>, and columns, <EM>ncols</EM>. The window is at
+ position (<EM>begin</EM>_<EM>y</EM>, <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>x</EM>) on the screen. The subwindow shares memory
+ with the window <EM>orig</EM>, so that changes made to one window will affect
+ both windows. When using this routine, it is necessary to call <STRONG>touch-</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>win</STRONG> or <STRONG>touchline</STRONG> on <EM>orig</EM> before calling <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> on the subwindow.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-derwin">derwin</a></H3><PRE>
- Calling <STRONG>derwin</STRONG> is the same as calling <STRONG>subwin,</STRONG> except that
- <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>y</EM> and <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>x</EM> are relative to the origin of the win-
- dow <EM>orig</EM> rather than the screen. There is no difference
- between the subwindows and the derived windows.
+ Calling <STRONG>derwin</STRONG> is the same as calling <STRONG>subwin,</STRONG> except that <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>y</EM> and
+ <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>x</EM> are relative to the origin of the window <EM>orig</EM> rather than the
+ screen. There is no difference between the subwindows and the derived
+ windows.
- Calling <STRONG>mvderwin</STRONG> moves a derived window (or subwindow) in-
- side its parent window. The screen-relative parameters of
- the window are not changed. This routine is used to dis-
- play different parts of the parent window at the same
- physical position on the screen.
+ Calling <STRONG>mvderwin</STRONG> moves a derived window (or subwindow) inside its par-
+ ent window. The screen-relative parameters of the window are not
+ changed. This routine is used to display different parts of the parent
+ window at the same physical position on the screen.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-dupwin">dupwin</a></H3><PRE>
- Calling <STRONG>dupwin</STRONG> creates an exact duplicate of the window
- <EM>win</EM>.
+ Calling <STRONG>dupwin</STRONG> creates an exact duplicate of the window <EM>win</EM>.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-wsyncup">wsyncup</a></H3><PRE>
- Calling <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG> touches all locations in ancestors of <EM>win</EM>
- that are changed in <EM>win</EM>. If <STRONG>syncok</STRONG> is called with second
- argument <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG> then <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG> is called automatically whenev-
- er there is a change in the window.
+ Calling <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG> touches all locations in ancestors of <EM>win</EM> that are
+ changed in <EM>win</EM>. If <STRONG>syncok</STRONG> is called with second argument <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG> then
+ <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG> is called automatically whenever there is a change in the win-
+ dow.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-wsyncdown">wsyncdown</a></H3><PRE>
- The <STRONG>wsyncdown</STRONG> routine touches each location in <EM>win</EM> that
- has been touched in any of its ancestor windows. This
- routine is called by <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG>, so it should almost never
- be necessary to call it manually.
+ The <STRONG>wsyncdown</STRONG> routine touches each location in <EM>win</EM> that has been
+ touched in any of its ancestor windows. This routine is called by <STRONG>wre-</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>fresh</STRONG>, so it should almost never be necessary to call it manually.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-wcursyncup">wcursyncup</a></H3><PRE>
- The routine <STRONG>wcursyncup</STRONG> updates the current cursor position
- of all the ancestors of the window to reflect the current
- cursor position of the window.
+ The routine <STRONG>wcursyncup</STRONG> updates the current cursor position of all the
+ ancestors of the window to reflect the current cursor position of the
+ window.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
- Routines that return an integer return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> up-
- on failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value
- other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful completion.
+ Routines that return an integer return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and
+ <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon suc-
+ cessful completion.
Routines that return pointers return <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> on error.
- X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa-
- tion
+ X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementation
<STRONG>delwin</STRONG>
- returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if
- the window is the parent of another window.
+ returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if the window
+ is the parent of another window.
<STRONG>derwin</STRONG>
- returns an error if the parent window pointer is
- null, or if any of its ordinates or dimensions is
- negative, or if the resulting window does not fit in-
- side the parent window.
+ returns an error if the parent window pointer is null, or if any
+ of its ordinates or dimensions is negative, or if the resulting
+ window does not fit inside the parent window.
<STRONG>dupwin</STRONG>
returns an error if the window pointer is null.
- This implementation also maintains a list of windows,
- and checks that the pointer passed to <STRONG>delwin</STRONG> is one
- that it created, returning an error if it was not..
+ This implementation also maintains a list of windows, and checks
+ that the pointer passed to <STRONG>delwin</STRONG> is one that it created, return-
+ ing an error if it was not..
<STRONG>mvderwin</STRONG>
- returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if
- some part of the window would be placed off-screen.
+ returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if some part of
+ the window would be placed off-screen.
<STRONG>mvwin</STRONG>
- returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if
- the window is really a pad, or if some part of the
- window would be placed off-screen.
+ returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if the window
+ is really a pad, or if some part of the window would be placed
+ off-screen.
<STRONG>newwin</STRONG>
- will fail if either of its beginning ordinates is
- negative, or if either the number of lines or columns
- is negative.
+ will fail if either of its beginning ordinates is negative, or if
+ either the number of lines or columns is negative.
<STRONG>syncok</STRONG>
returns an error if the window pointer is null.
<STRONG>subwin</STRONG>
- returns an error if the parent window pointer is
- null, or if any of its ordinates or dimensions is
- negative, or if the resulting window does not fit in-
- side the parent window.
+ returns an error if the parent window pointer is null, or if any
+ of its ordinates or dimensions is negative, or if the resulting
+ window does not fit inside the parent window.
- The functions which return a window pointer may also fail
- if there is insufficient memory for its data structures.
- Any of these functions will fail if the screen has not
- been initialized, i.e., with <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> or <STRONG>newterm</STRONG>.
+ The functions which return a window pointer may also fail if there is
+ insufficient memory for its data structures. Any of these functions
+ will fail if the screen has not been initialized, i.e., with <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> or
+ <STRONG>newterm</STRONG>.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
- If many small changes are made to the window, the <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG>
- option could degrade performance.
+ If many small changes are made to the window, the <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG> option could
+ degrade performance.
Note that <STRONG>syncok</STRONG> may be a macro.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-BUGS">BUGS</a></H2><PRE>
- The subwindow functions (<EM>subwin</EM>, <EM>derwin</EM>, <EM>mvderwin</EM>, <STRONG>wsyn-</STRONG>
- <STRONG>cup</STRONG>, <STRONG>wsyncdown</STRONG>, <STRONG>wcursyncup</STRONG>, <STRONG>syncok</STRONG>) are flaky, incomplete-
- ly implemented, and not well tested.
-
- The System V curses documentation is very unclear about
- what <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG> and <STRONG>wsyncdown</STRONG> actually do. It seems to imply
- that they are only supposed to touch exactly those lines
- that are affected by ancestor changes. The language here,
- and the behavior of the <STRONG>curses</STRONG> implementation, is pat-
- terned on the XPG4 curses standard. The weaker XPG4 spec
+ The subwindow functions (<STRONG>subwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>derwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvderwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG>, <STRONG>wsyncdown</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>wcursyncup</STRONG>, <STRONG>syncok</STRONG>) are flaky, incompletely implemented, and not well
+ tested.
+
+ The System V curses documentation is very unclear about what <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG>
+ and <STRONG>wsyncdown</STRONG> actually do. It seems to imply that they are only sup-
+ posed to touch exactly those lines that are affected by ancestor
+ changes. The language here, and the behavior of the <STRONG>curses</STRONG> implementa-
+ tion, is patterned on the XPG4 curses standard. The weaker XPG4 spec
may result in slower updates.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these func-
- tions.
+ The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_touch.3x.html">curs_touch(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>curs_vari-</STRONG>
- <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">ables(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_touch.3x.html">curs_touch(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>
- <STRONG><A HREF="curs_window.3x.html">curs_window(3x)</A></STRONG>
+
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_window.3x.html">curs_window(3x)</A></STRONG>
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