NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | NOTES | PORTABILITY | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

curs_pad(3X)                                                    curs_pad(3X)

NAME         top

       newpad, subpad, prefresh, pnoutrefresh, pechochar, pecho_wchar -
       create and display curses pads

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <curses.h>
       WINDOW *newpad(int nlines, int ncols);
       WINDOW *subpad(WINDOW *orig, int nlines, int ncols,
             int begin_y, int begin_x);
       int prefresh(WINDOW *pad, int pminrow, int pmincol,
             int sminrow, int smincol, int smaxrow, int smaxcol);
       int pnoutrefresh(WINDOW *pad, int pminrow, int pmincol,
             int sminrow, int smincol, int smaxrow, int smaxcol);
       int pechochar(WINDOW *pad, chtype ch);
       int pecho_wchar(WINDOW *pad, const cchar_t *wch);

DESCRIPTION         top

   newpad
       The newpad routine creates and returns a pointer to a new pad data
       structure with the given number of lines, nlines, and columns, ncols.
       A pad is like a window, except that it is not restricted by the
       screen size, and is not necessarily associated with a particular part
       of the screen.  Pads can be used when a large window is needed, and
       only a part of the window will be on the screen at one time.
       Automatic refreshes of pads (e.g., from scrolling or echoing of
       input) do not occur.  It is not legal to call wrefresh with a pad as
       an argument; the routines prefresh or pnoutrefresh should be called
       instead.  Note that these routines require additional parameters to
       specify the part of the pad to be displayed and the location on the
       screen to be used for the display.
   subpad
       The subpad routine creates and returns a pointer to a subwindow
       within a pad with the given number of lines, nlines, and columns,
       ncols.  Unlike subwin, which uses screen coordinates, the window is
       at position (begin_x, begin_y) on the pad.  The window is made in the
       middle of the window orig, so that changes made to one window affect
       both windows.  During the use of this routine, it will often be
       necessary to call touchwin or touchline on orig before calling
       prefresh.
   prefresh, pnoutrefresh
       The prefresh and pnoutrefresh routines are analogous to wrefresh and
       wnoutrefresh except that they relate to pads instead of windows.  The
       additional parameters are needed to indicate what part of the pad and
       screen are involved.  The pminrow and pmincol parameters specify the
       upper left-hand corner of the rectangle to be displayed in the pad.
       The sminrow, smincol, smaxrow, and smaxcol parameters specify the
       edges of the rectangle to be displayed on the screen.  The lower
       right-hand corner of the rectangle to be displayed in the pad is
       calculated from the screen coordinates, since the rectangles must be
       the same size.  Both rectangles must be entirely contained within
       their respective structures.  Negative values of pminrow, pmincol,
       sminrow, or smincol are treated as if they were zero.
   pechochar
       The pechochar routine is functionally equivalent to a call to addch
       followed by a call to refresh(3X), a call to waddch followed by a
       call to wrefresh, or a call to waddch followed by a call to prefresh.
       The knowledge that only a single character is being output is taken
       into consideration and, for non-control characters, a considerable
       performance gain might be seen by using these routines instead of
       their equivalents.  In the case of pechochar, the last location of
       the pad on the screen is reused for the arguments to prefresh.
   pecho_wchar
       The pecho_wchar function is the analogous wide-character form of
       pechochar.  It outputs one character to a pad and immediately
       refreshes the pad.  It does this by a call to wadd_wch followed by a
       call to prefresh.

RETURN VALUE         top

       Routines that return an integer return ERR upon failure and OK (SVr4
       only specifies "an integer value other than ERR") upon successful
       completion.
       Routines that return pointers return NULL on error, and set errno to
       ENOMEM.
       X/Open does not define any error conditions.  In this implementation
          prefresh and pnoutrefresh
               return an error if the window pointer is null, or if the
               window is not really a pad or if the area to refresh extends
               off-screen or if the minimum coordinates are greater than the
               maximum.
          pechochar
               returns an error if the window is not really a pad, and the
               associated call to wechochar returns an error.
          pecho_wchar
               returns an error if the window is not really a pad, and the
               associated call to wecho_wchar returns an error.

NOTES         top

       Note that pechochar may be a macro.

PORTABILITY         top

       The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.

SEE ALSO         top

       curses(3X), curs_refresh(3X), curs_touch(3X), curs_addch(3X).

COLOPHON         top

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