X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fcurs_printw.3x.html;h=7e26b7f724a7ac1fc0cce4c43162e5f797e42deb;hp=498da06ca05df6b624e47611af8273f5b8cae8e7;hb=3eda6f30a84d53844d2ebceadb457e2e7e9cfbf3;hpb=a8987e73ec254703634802b4f7ee30d3a485524d;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/html/man/curs_printw.3x.html b/doc/html/man/curs_printw.3x.html index 498da06c..7e26b7f7 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/curs_printw.3x.html +++ b/doc/html/man/curs_printw.3x.html @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ - +
+ +- -curs_printw(3x) curs_printw(3x) +curs_printw(3x) curs_printw(3x) --
- printw, wprintw, mvprintw, mvwprintw, vwprintw, vw_printw +
+ printw, wprintw, mvprintw, mvwprintw, vwprintw, vw_printw - print formatted output in curses windows --
+
#include <curses.h> int printw(const char *fmt, ...); @@ -66,52 +64,62 @@ glist); --
+
The printw, wprintw, mvprintw and mvwprintw routines are - analogous to printf [see printf(3S)]. In effect, the + analogous to printf [see printf(3)]. In effect, the string that would be output by printf is output instead as though waddstr were used on the given window. The vwprintw and wv_printw routines are analogous to - vprintf [see printf(3S)] and perform a wprintw using a + vprintf [see printf(3)] and perform a wprintw using a variable argument list. The third argument is a va_list, a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in <stdarg.h>. --
+
Routines that return an integer return ERR upon failure and OK (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than ERR") upon successful completion. + X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa- + tion, an error may be returned if it cannot allocate + enough memory for the buffer used to format the results. + It will return an error if the window pointer is null. --
- The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these func- - tions. The function vwprintw is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, - and is to be replaced by a function vw_printw using the + Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move- + ment using wmove, and return an error if the position is + outside the window, or if the window pointer is null. + + +
+ The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these func- + tions. The function vwprintw is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, + and is to be replaced by a function vw_printw using the <stdarg.h> interface. The Single Unix Specification, Ver- - sion 2 states that vw_printw is preferred to vwprintw - since the latter requires including <varargs.h>, which - cannot be used in the same file as <stdarg.h>. This - implementation uses <stdarg.h> for both, because that - header is included in <curses.h>. + sion 2 states that vw_printw is preferred to vwprintw + since the latter requires including <varargs.h>, which + cannot be used in the same file as <stdarg.h>. This im- + plementation uses <stdarg.h> for both, because that header + is included in <curses.h>. --
- curses(3x), printf(3S), vprintf(3S) +
+ curses(3x), printf(3), vprintf(3). - curs_printw(3x) + curs_printw(3x)-