X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fcurs_printw.3x;h=9918f9df9a718918cc62edd9a56c6b09dc53cb66;hp=7c1a41b5b96f7c241d817abf8253696fe19da663;hb=67ab4b308e932639a3a832052228d445c41c54b4;hpb=027ae42953e3186daed8f3882da73de48291b606 diff --git a/man/curs_printw.3x b/man/curs_printw.3x index 7c1a41b5..9918f9df 100644 --- a/man/curs_printw.3x +++ b/man/curs_printw.3x @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * .\" * .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: curs_printw.3x,v 1.16 2006/02/25 21:49:19 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: curs_printw.3x,v 1.20 2010/12/04 18:40:45 tom Exp $ .TH curs_printw 3X "" .na .hy 0 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ \fBwprintw\fR, \fBmvprintw\fR, \fBmvwprintw\fR, -\fBvwprintw\fR, \fBvw_printw\fR - print formatted output in \fBcurses\fR windows +\fBvwprintw\fR, \fBvw_printw\fR \- print formatted output in \fBcurses\fR windows .ad .hy .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ .br .SH DESCRIPTION The \fBprintw\fR, \fBwprintw\fR, \fBmvprintw\fR and \fBmvwprintw\fR -routines are analogous to \fBprintf\fR [see \fBprintf\fR(3S)]. In +routines are analogous to \fBprintf\fR [see \fBprintf\fR(3)]. In effect, the string that would be output by \fBprintf\fR is output instead as though \fBwaddstr\fR were used on the given window. .PP The \fBvwprintw\fR and \fBwv_printw\fR routines are analogous -to \fBvprintf\fR [see \fBprintf\fR(3S)] +to \fBvprintf\fR [see \fBprintf\fR(3)] and perform a \fBwprintw\fR using a variable argument list. The third argument is a \fBva_list\fR, a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in \fB\fR. @@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ In this implementation, 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. +.PP +Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using +\fBwmove\fP, and return an error if the position is outside the window, +or if the window pointer is null. .SH PORTABILITY The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions. The function \fBvwprintw\fR is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be replaced by a function @@ -85,10 +89,4 @@ cannot be used in the same file as \fB\fR. This implementation uses \fB\fR for both, because that header is included in \fB. .SH SEE ALSO -\fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBprintf\fR(3S), \fBvprintf(3S)\fR -.\"# -.\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS -.\"# Local Variables: -.\"# mode:nroff -.\"# fill-column:79 -.\"# End: +\fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBprintf\fR(3), \fBvprintf(3)\fR