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41 <H1 class="no-header">curs_window 3x</H1>
42 <PRE>
43 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_window.3x.html">curs_window(3x)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="curs_window.3x.html">curs_window(3x)</A></STRONG>
48 </PRE>
49 <H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
50 <STRONG>newwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>delwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>subwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>derwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvderwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>dupwin</STRONG>,
51 <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG>, <STRONG>syncok</STRONG>, <STRONG>wcursyncup</STRONG>, <STRONG>wsyncdown</STRONG> - create <STRONG>curses</STRONG>
52 windows
55 </PRE>
56 <H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
57 <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
59 <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*newwin(</STRONG>
60 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>nlines</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>ncols</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG>
61 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>begin</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>y</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>begin</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>x</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
62 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>delwin(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
63 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwin(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>y</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>x</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
64 <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*subwin(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>orig</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG>
65 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>nlines</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>ncols</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG>
66 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>begin</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>y</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>begin</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>x</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
67 <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*derwin(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>orig</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG>
68 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>nlines</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>ncols</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG>
69 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>begin</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>y</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>begin</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>x</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
70 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvderwin(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>par</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>y</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>par</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>x</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
71 <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*dupwin(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
72 <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>wsyncup(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
73 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>syncok(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>bool</STRONG> <EM>bf</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
74 <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>wcursyncup(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
75 <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>wsyncdown(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
78 </PRE>
79 <H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
81 </PRE>
82 <H3><a name="h3-newwin">newwin</a></H3><PRE>
83 Calling <STRONG>newwin</STRONG> creates and returns a pointer to a new win-
84 dow with the given number of lines and columns. The upper
85 left-hand corner of the window is at
86 line <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>y</EM>,
87 column <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>x</EM>
89 If either <EM>nlines</EM> or <EM>ncols</EM> is zero, they default to
90 <STRONG>LINES</STRONG> <STRONG>-</STRONG> <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>y</EM> and
91 <STRONG>COLS</STRONG> <STRONG>-</STRONG> <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>x</EM>.
93 A new full-screen window is created by calling
94 <STRONG>newwin(0,0,0,0)</STRONG>.
97 </PRE>
98 <H3><a name="h3-delwin">delwin</a></H3><PRE>
99 Calling <STRONG>delwin</STRONG> deletes the named window, freeing all memo-
100 ry associated with it (it does not actually erase the win-
101 dow's screen image). Subwindows must be deleted before
102 the main window can be deleted.
105 </PRE>
106 <H3><a name="h3-mvwin">mvwin</a></H3><PRE>
107 Calling <STRONG>mvwin</STRONG> moves the window so that the upper left-hand
108 corner is at position (<EM>x</EM>, <EM>y</EM>). If the move would cause the
109 window to be off the screen, it is an error and the window
110 is not moved. Moving subwindows is allowed, but should be
111 avoided.
114 </PRE>
115 <H3><a name="h3-subwin">subwin</a></H3><PRE>
116 Calling <STRONG>subwin</STRONG> creates and returns a pointer to a new win-
117 dow with the given number of lines, <EM>nlines</EM>, and columns,
118 <EM>ncols</EM>. The window is at position (<EM>begin</EM>_<EM>y</EM>, <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>x</EM>) on
119 the screen. The subwindow shares memory with the window
120 <EM>orig</EM>, so that changes made to one window will affect both
121 windows. When using this routine, it is necessary to call
122 <STRONG>touchwin</STRONG> or <STRONG>touchline</STRONG> on <EM>orig</EM> before calling <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> on
123 the subwindow.
126 </PRE>
127 <H3><a name="h3-derwin">derwin</a></H3><PRE>
128 Calling <STRONG>derwin</STRONG> is the same as calling <STRONG>subwin,</STRONG> except that
129 <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>y</EM> and <EM>begin</EM>_<EM>x</EM> are relative to the origin of the win-
130 dow <EM>orig</EM> rather than the screen. There is no difference
131 between the subwindows and the derived windows.
133 Calling <STRONG>mvderwin</STRONG> moves a derived window (or subwindow) in-
134 side its parent window. The screen-relative parameters of
135 the window are not changed. This routine is used to dis-
136 play different parts of the parent window at the same
137 physical position on the screen.
140 </PRE>
141 <H3><a name="h3-dupwin">dupwin</a></H3><PRE>
142 Calling <STRONG>dupwin</STRONG> creates an exact duplicate of the window
143 <EM>win</EM>.
146 </PRE>
147 <H3><a name="h3-wsyncup">wsyncup</a></H3><PRE>
148 Calling <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG> touches all locations in ancestors of <EM>win</EM>
149 that are changed in <EM>win</EM>. If <STRONG>syncok</STRONG> is called with second
150 argument <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG> then <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG> is called automatically whenev-
151 er there is a change in the window.
154 </PRE>
155 <H3><a name="h3-wsyncdown">wsyncdown</a></H3><PRE>
156 The <STRONG>wsyncdown</STRONG> routine touches each location in <EM>win</EM> that
157 has been touched in any of its ancestor windows. This
158 routine is called by <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG>, so it should almost never
159 be necessary to call it manually.
162 </PRE>
163 <H3><a name="h3-wcursyncup">wcursyncup</a></H3><PRE>
164 The routine <STRONG>wcursyncup</STRONG> updates the current cursor position
165 of all the ancestors of the window to reflect the current
166 cursor position of the window.
169 </PRE>
170 <H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
171 Routines that return an integer return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> up-
172 on failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value
173 other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful completion.
175 Routines that return pointers return <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> on error.
177 X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa-
178 tion
180 <STRONG>delwin</STRONG>
181 returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if
182 the window is the parent of another window.
184 <STRONG>derwin</STRONG>
185 returns an error if the parent window pointer is
186 null, or if any of its ordinates or dimensions is
187 negative, or if the resulting window does not fit in-
188 side the parent window.
190 <STRONG>dupwin</STRONG>
191 returns an error if the window pointer is null.
193 This implementation also maintains a list of windows,
194 and checks that the pointer passed to <STRONG>delwin</STRONG> is one
195 that it created, returning an error if it was not..
197 <STRONG>mvderwin</STRONG>
198 returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if
199 some part of the window would be placed off-screen.
201 <STRONG>mvwin</STRONG>
202 returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if
203 the window is really a pad, or if some part of the
204 window would be placed off-screen.
206 <STRONG>newwin</STRONG>
207 will fail if either of its beginning ordinates is
208 negative, or if either the number of lines or columns
209 is negative.
211 <STRONG>syncok</STRONG>
212 returns an error if the window pointer is null.
214 <STRONG>subwin</STRONG>
215 returns an error if the parent window pointer is
216 null, or if any of its ordinates or dimensions is
217 negative, or if the resulting window does not fit in-
218 side the parent window.
220 The functions which return a window pointer may also fail
221 if there is insufficient memory for its data structures.
222 Any of these functions will fail if the screen has not
223 been initialized, i.e., with <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> or <STRONG>newterm</STRONG>.
226 </PRE>
227 <H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
228 If many small changes are made to the window, the <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG>
229 option could degrade performance.
231 Note that <STRONG>syncok</STRONG> may be a macro.
234 </PRE>
235 <H2><a name="h2-BUGS">BUGS</a></H2><PRE>
236 The subwindow functions (<EM>subwin</EM>, <EM>derwin</EM>, <EM>mvderwin</EM>, <STRONG>wsyn-</STRONG>
237 <STRONG>cup</STRONG>, <STRONG>wsyncdown</STRONG>, <STRONG>wcursyncup</STRONG>, <STRONG>syncok</STRONG>) are flaky, incomplete-
238 ly implemented, and not well tested.
240 The System V curses documentation is very unclear about
241 what <STRONG>wsyncup</STRONG> and <STRONG>wsyncdown</STRONG> actually do. It seems to imply
242 that they are only supposed to touch exactly those lines
243 that are affected by ancestor changes. The language here,
244 and the behavior of the <STRONG>curses</STRONG> implementation, is pat-
245 terned on the XPG4 curses standard. The weaker XPG4 spec
246 may result in slower updates.
249 </PRE>
250 <H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
251 The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these func-
252 tions.
255 </PRE>
256 <H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
257 <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>
258 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">ables(3x)</A></STRONG>
262 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_window.3x.html">curs_window(3x)</A></STRONG>
263 </PRE>
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265 <ul>
266 <li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
267 <li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
268 <li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
269 <ul>
270 <li><a href="#h3-newwin">newwin</a></li>
271 <li><a href="#h3-delwin">delwin</a></li>
272 <li><a href="#h3-mvwin">mvwin</a></li>
273 <li><a href="#h3-subwin">subwin</a></li>
274 <li><a href="#h3-derwin">derwin</a></li>
275 <li><a href="#h3-dupwin">dupwin</a></li>
276 <li><a href="#h3-wsyncup">wsyncup</a></li>
277 <li><a href="#h3-wsyncdown">wsyncdown</a></li>
278 <li><a href="#h3-wcursyncup">wcursyncup</a></li>
279 </ul>
280 </li>
281 <li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
282 <li><a href="#h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
283 <li><a href="#h2-BUGS">BUGS</a></li>
284 <li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
285 <li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
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