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<H1>curs_overlay 3x</H1>
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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>overlay</STRONG>, <STRONG>overwrite</STRONG>, <STRONG>copywin</STRONG> - overlay and manipulate
overlapped <STRONG>curses</STRONG> windows
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>overlay(const</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*srcwin,</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*dstwin);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>overwrite(const</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*srcwin,</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*dstwin);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>copywin(const</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*srcwin,</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*dstwin,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG>
<STRONG>sminrow,</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>smincol,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>dminrow,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>dmincol,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>dmaxrow,</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>dmaxcol,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>overlay);</STRONG>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
The <STRONG>overlay</STRONG> and <STRONG>overwrite</STRONG> routines overlay <EM>srcwin</EM> on top
of <EM>dstwin</EM>. <EM>scrwin</EM> and <EM>dstwin</EM> are not required to be the
same size; only text where the two windows overlap is
copied. The difference is that <STRONG>overlay</STRONG> is non-destructive
(blanks are not copied) whereas <STRONG>overwrite</STRONG> is destructive.
The <STRONG>copywin</STRONG> routine provides a finer granularity of con-
trol over the <STRONG>overlay</STRONG> and <STRONG>overwrite</STRONG> routines. Like in the
<STRONG>prefresh</STRONG> routine, a rectangle is specified in the destina-
tion window, (<EM>dminrow</EM>, <EM>dmincol</EM>) and (<EM>dmaxrow</EM>, <EM>dmaxcol</EM>),
and the upper-left-corner coordinates of the source win-
dow, (<EM>sminrow</EM>, <EM>smincol</EM>). If the argument <EM>overlay</EM> is <STRONG>true</STRONG>,
then copying is non-destructive, as in <STRONG>overlay</STRONG>.
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<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
Routines that return an integer return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure,
and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than
<STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful completion.
X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa-
tion, <STRONG>copywin</STRONG>, <STRONG>overlay</STRONG> and <STRONG>overwrite</STRONG> return an error if
either of the window pointers are null, or if some part of
the window would be placed off-screen.
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<H2>NOTES</H2><PRE>
Note that <STRONG>overlay</STRONG> and <STRONG>overwrite</STRONG> may be macros.
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<H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions
(adding the const qualifiers). It further specifies their
behavior in the presence of characters with multibyte ren-
ditions (not yet supported in this implementation).
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_pad.3x.html">curs_pad(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_overlay.3x.html">curs_overlay(3x)</A></STRONG>
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