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curs_printw(3X)

print formatted output in curses windows

From the original Amiga UNIX 2.1 manual. Some things it mentions may not be in this release.

NAME

curs_printw: printw, wprintw, mvprintw, mvwprintw, vwprintw - print formatted output in curses windows

SYNOPSIS

#include <curses.h>

int printw(char *fmt [, arg] ...);

int wprintw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt [, arg] ...);
int mvprintw(int y, int x, char *fmt [, arg] ...);

int mvwprintw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x,
     char *fmt [, arg] ...);

#include <varargs.h>
int vwprintw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, varglist);

DESCRIPTION

The printw, wprintw, mvprintw and mvwprintw routines are analogous to printf [see printf(3S)]. In effect, the string that would be output by printf is output instead as though waddstr were used on the given window. The vwprintw routine is analogous to vprintf [see vprintf(3S)] and performs a wprintw using a variable argument list. The third argument is a va_list, a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in <varargs.h>.

RETURN VALUE

All routines return the integer ERR upon failure and an integer value other than ERR upon successful completion.

NOTES