curs_scroll(3x) — Linux manual page

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

curs_scroll(3X)                                           curs_scroll(3X)

NAME         top

       scroll, scrl, wscrl - scroll a curses window

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <curses.h>

       int scroll(WINDOW *win);

       int scrl(int n);
       int wscrl(WINDOW *win, int n);

DESCRIPTION         top

       The  scroll routine scrolls the window up one line.  This involves
       moving the lines in the window data structure.   As  an  optimiza‐
       tion,  if the scrolling region of the window is the entire screen,
       the physical screen may be scrolled at the same time.

       For positive n, the scrl and wscrl routines scroll the window up n
       lines (line i+n becomes i); otherwise scroll  the  window  down  n
       lines.  This involves moving the lines in the window character im‐
       age structure.  The current cursor position is not changed.

       For  these functions to work, scrolling must be enabled via scrol‐
       lok(3X).

RETURN VALUE         top

       These routines return ERR upon failure, and OK (SVr4  only  speci‐
       fies  "an  integer  value other than ERR") upon successful comple‐
       tion.

       X/Open defines no error conditions.

       This implementation returns an error  if  the  window  pointer  is
       null,  or  if  scrolling  is not enabled in the window, e.g., with
       scrollok(3X).

NOTES         top

       Note that scrl and scroll may be macros.

       The SVr4 documentation says that the  optimization  of  physically
       scrolling  immediately  if  the scroll region is the entire screen
       “is” performed, not “may be” performed.  This  implementation  de‐
       liberately  does not guarantee that this will occur, to leave open
       the possibility of smarter optimization of multiple scroll actions
       on the next update.

       Neither the SVr4 nor the XSI  documentation  specify  whether  the
       current attribute or current color-pair of blanks generated by the
       scroll function is zeroed.  Under this implementation it is.

PORTABILITY         top

       The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.

SEE ALSO         top

       curses(3X), curs_outopts(3X)

COLOPHON         top

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