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author | Nicholas Marriott <nicm@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2010-01-12 23:22:15 +0000 |
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committer | Nicholas Marriott <nicm@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2010-01-12 23:22:15 +0000 |
commit | 6ee254699bf787d78835419be2b3241fb037d444 (patch) | |
tree | 07fe67dab517e4990f344fe2c00e65cef4d25b81 /lib/libcurses/curs_printw.3 | |
parent | 0b62f5dc36fc7203a74cdc812c4234ae188fdfd2 (diff) |
Update to ncurses 5.7, with local changes reapplied.
This is around eight years worth of changes (previously we were around ncurses
5.2), too many to list - many bug fixes and also a few new functions.
A major bump for libcurses, libpanel, libform and libmenu.
ok deraadt
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libcurses/curs_printw.3')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libcurses/curs_printw.3 | 48 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libcurses/curs_printw.3 b/lib/libcurses/curs_printw.3 index 1b1fefc2644..02333f945aa 100644 --- a/lib/libcurses/curs_printw.3 +++ b/lib/libcurses/curs_printw.3 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: curs_printw.3,v 1.10 2001/07/27 05:32:05 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: curs_printw.3,v 1.11 2010/01/12 23:21:59 nicm Exp $ .\" .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2005,2006 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 * @@ -28,50 +28,64 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $From: curs_printw.3x,v 1.11 2000/07/01 20:11:32 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: curs_printw.3,v 1.11 2010/01/12 23:21:59 nicm Exp $ .TH curs_printw 3 "" +.na +.hy 0 .SH NAME \fBprintw\fR, \fBwprintw\fR, \fBmvprintw\fR, \fBmvwprintw\fR, \fBvwprintw\fR, \fBvw_printw\fR - print formatted output in \fBcurses\fR windows +.ad +.hy .SH SYNOPSIS \fB#include <curses.h>\fR - -\fBint printw(char *fmt\fR [\fB, arg\fR] \fB...);\fR +.sp +\fBint printw(const char *fmt, ...);\fR .br -\fBint wprintw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt\fR [\fB, arg\fR] \fB...);\fR +\fBint wprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, ...);\fR .br -\fBint mvprintw(int y, int x, char *fmt\fR [\fB, arg\fR] \fB...);\fR +\fBint mvprintw(int y, int x, const char *fmt, ...);\fR .br -\fBint mvwprintw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x,\fR - \fBchar *fmt\fR [\fB, arg]\fR ...); - -\fB#include <stdarg.h>\fR +\fBint mvwprintw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, const char *fmt, ...);\fR .br -\fBint vwprintw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, varglist);\fR +\fBint vwprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, va_list varglist);\fR .br -\fBint vw_printw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, varglist);\fR +\fBint vw_printw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, va_list varglist);\fR .br .SH DESCRIPTION The \fBprintw\fR, \fBwprintw\fR, \fBmvprintw\fR and \fBmvwprintw\fR 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. - -The \fBvwprintw\fR routine is analogous to \fBvprintf\fR [see -\fBprintf\fR(3)] and performs a \fBwprintw\fR using a variable -argument list. The third argument is a \fBva_list\fR, a pointer to a +.PP +The \fBvwprintw\fR and \fBwv_printw\fR routines are analogous +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<stdarg.h>\fR. .SH RETURN VALUE Routines that return an integer return \fBERR\fR upon failure and \fBOK\fR (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than \fBERR\fR") upon successful completion. +.PP +X/Open defines no error conditions. +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. .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 \fBvw_printw\fR using the \fB<stdarg.h>\fR interface. +The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 states that +\fBvw_printw\fR is preferred to \fBvwprintw\fR since the latter requires +including \fB<varargs.h>\fR, which +cannot be used in the same file as \fB<stdarg.h>\fR. +This implementation uses \fB<stdarg.h>\fR for both, because that header +is included in \fB<curses.h\fR>. .SH SEE ALSO \fBcurses\fR(3), \fBprintf\fR(3), \fBvprintf(3)\fR .\"# |