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-<H1 class="no-header">curs_touch 3x 2024-04-20 ncurses 6.5 Library calls</H1>
+<H1 class="no-header">curs_touch 3x 2025-01-18 ncurses 6.6 Library calls</H1>
<PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_touch.3x.html">curs_touch(3x)</A></STRONG> Library calls <STRONG><A HREF="curs_touch.3x.html">curs_touch(3x)</A></STRONG>
-
-
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>touchwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>touchline</STRONG>, <STRONG>untouchwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>wtouchln</STRONG>, <STRONG>is_linetouched</STRONG>,
<STRONG>is_wintouched</STRONG> - control terminal output refresh in a <EM>curses</EM> window
@@ -69,10 +67,10 @@
The <STRONG>touchwin</STRONG> and <STRONG>touchline</STRONG> routines throw away all optimization
information about which parts of the window have been touched, by
pretending that the entire window has been drawn on. This is sometimes
- necessary when using overlapping windows, since a change to one window
- affects the other window, but the records of which lines have been
- changed in the other window do not reflect the change. The routine
- <STRONG>touchline</STRONG> only pretends that <EM>count</EM> lines have been changed, beginning
+ necessary when using overlapping windows, since a change to one window
+ affects the other window, but the records of which lines have been
+ changed in the other window do not reflect the change. The routine
+ <STRONG>touchline</STRONG> only pretends that <EM>count</EM> lines have been changed, beginning
with line <EM>start</EM>.
The <STRONG>untouchwin</STRONG> routine marks all lines in the window as unchanged since
@@ -89,19 +87,17 @@
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
- All routines return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and an integer value
- other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon successful completion, unless otherwise noted in
- the preceding routine descriptions.
+ Functions returning integers return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> upon
+ success.
- X/Open Curses does not specify any error conditions. In this
- implementation
+ In <EM>ncurses</EM>,
<STRONG>is_linetouched</STRONG>
- returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if the line
+ returns <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> if the window pointer is null, or if the line
number is outside the window boundaries.
The constant <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> is distinct from <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG> and <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>, which are the
- normal return values of this function. Because the function
+ normal return values of this function. Because the function
returns a <STRONG>bool</STRONG>, returning <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> (which is neither <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG> nor <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>)
may not be supported by the compiler.
@@ -110,31 +106,35 @@
The actual function returns <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG> when it detects an error.
<STRONG>wtouchln</STRONG>
- returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if the line
+ returns <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> if the window pointer is null, or if the line
number is outside the window boundaries.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
- All of these routines except <STRONG>wtouchln</STRONG> may be macros.
+ All of these functions except <STRONG>wtouchln</STRONG> may be implemented as macros.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- These functions were introduced by SVr4. The Solaris <EM>curses</EM> header
- file, for instance, defines both an actual function and macro for each.
- The macros give the same result as the actual functions. SVr4 <EM>curses</EM>
- does not check the window parameter <EM>win</EM> to ensure that it is not <STRONG>NULL</STRONG>;
- otherwise this implementation behaves the same as SVr4.
+ X/Open Curses Issue 4 describes these functions. It specifies no error
+ conditions for them.
- X/Open Curses, Issue 4 describes these functions, but defines no error
- conditions.
+ SVr4 describes a successful return value except where "otherwise noted"
+ as "an integer value other than <EM>ERR</EM>".
+ SVr4 does not check <EM>win</EM> to ensure that it is not a null pointer.
-</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
+ SVr2 (1984) introduced <EM>touchwin</EM>,
+ SVr3 (1987) added <EM>touchline</EM>. SVr3.1 later that year supplied
+ <EM>is</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>linetouched</EM>, <EM>is</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>wintouched</EM>, <EM>untouchwin</EM>, and <EM>wtouchln</EM>.
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>
-ncurses 6.5 2024-04-20 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_touch.3x.html">curs_touch(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.6 2025-01-18 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_touch.3x.html">curs_touch(3x)</A></STRONG>
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<li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
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