curs_scroll(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual curs_scroll(3)
scroll, scrl, wscrl - scroll a curses window
#include <curses.h>
int scroll(WINDOW *win);
int scrl(int n);
int wscrl(WINDOW *win, int n);
The scroll routine scrolls the window up one line. This in-
volves moving the lines in the window data structure. As an
optimization, 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 win-
dow up n lines (line i+n becomes i); otherwise scroll the
window down n lines. This involves moving the lines in the
window character image structure. The current cursor posi-
tion is not changed.
For these functions to work, scrolling must be enabled via
scrollok.
These routines return ERR upon failure, and OK (SVr4 only
specifies "an integer value other than ERR") upon successful
completion.
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.
Note that scrl and scroll may be macros.
The SVr4 documentation says that the optimization of physi-
cally scrolling immediately if the scroll region is the en-
tire screen "is" performed, not "may be" performed. This im-
plementation deliberately 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 gen-
erated by the scroll function is zeroed. Under this imple-
mentation it is.
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curs_scroll(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual curs_scroll(3)
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.
curses(3), curs_outopts(3)
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