curs_printw(3x) curs_printw(3x)
printw, wprintw, mvprintw, mvwprintw, vwprintw, vw_printw
- print formatted output in curses windows
#include <curses.h>
int printw(const char *fmt, ...);
int wprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, ...);
int mvprintw(int y, int x, const char *fmt, ...);
int mvwprintw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, const char *fmt,
...);
int vwprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, va_list var-
glist);
int vw_printw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, va_list var-
glist);
The printw, wprintw, mvprintw and mvwprintw routines are
analogous to printf [see printf(3)]. In effect, the
string that would be output by printf is output instead as
though waddstr were used on the given window.
The vwprintw and wv_printw routines are analogous to
vprintf [see printf(3)] and perform a wprintw using a
variable argument list. The third argument is a va_list,
a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in
<stdarg.h>.
Routines that return an integer return ERR upon failure
and OK (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than
ERR") upon successful completion.
X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa-
tion, 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.
Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move-
ment using wmove, and return an error if the position is
outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these func-
tions. The function vwprintw is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN,
and is to be replaced by a function vw_printw using the
<stdarg.h> interface. The Single Unix Specification, Ver-
sion 2 states that vw_printw is preferred to vwprintw
since the latter requires including <varargs.h>, which
cannot be used in the same file as <stdarg.h>. This im-
plementation uses <stdarg.h> for both, because that header
is included in <curses.h>.
curses(3x), printf(3), vprintf(3)
curs_printw(3x)