curs_touch(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual curs_touch(3)
touchwin, touchline, untouchwin, wtouchln, is_linetouched,
is_wintouched - curses refresh control routines
#include <curses.h>
int touchwin(WINDOW *win);
int touchline(WINDOW *win, int start, int count);
int untouchwin(WINDOW *win);
int wtouchln(WINDOW *win, int y, int n, int changed);
bool is_linetouched(WINDOW *win, int line);
bool is_wintouched(WINDOW *win);
The touchwin and touchline routines throw away all optimiza-
tion 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 win-
dows, since a change to one window affects the other window,
but the records of which lines have been changed in the oth-
er window do not reflect the change. The routine touchline
only pretends that count lines have been changed, beginning
with line start.
The untouchwin routine marks all lines in the window as un-
changed since the last call to wrefresh.
The wtouchln routine makes n lines in the window, starting
at line y, look as if they have (changed=1) or have not
(changed=0) been changed since the last call to wrefresh.
The is_linetouched and is_wintouched routines return TRUE if
the specified line/window was modified since the last call
to wrefresh; otherwise they return FALSE. In addition,
is_linetouched returns ERR if line is not valid for the
given window.
All routines return the integer ERR upon failure and an in-
teger value other than ERR upon successful completion, un-
less otherwise noted in the preceding routine descriptions.
X/Open does not define any error conditions. In this imple-
mentation
is_linetouched
returns an error if the window pointer is null, or
if the line number is outside the window. Note
that ERR is distinct from TRUE and FALSE, which
are the normal return values of this function.
wtouchln
MirBSD #10-current Printed 2022-12-23 1
curs_touch(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual curs_touch(3)
returns an error if the window pointer is null, or
if the line number is outside the window.
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.
Some historic curses implementations had, as an undocumented
feature, the ability to do the equivalent of clearok(..., 1)
by saying touchwin(stdscr) or clear(stdscr). This will not
work under ncurses.
Note that all routines except wtouchln may be macros.
curses(3), curs_refresh(3).
MirBSD #10-current Printed 2022-12-23 2