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<H1>curs_scroll 3x</H1>
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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>scroll</STRONG>, <STRONG>scrl</STRONG>, <STRONG>wscrl</STRONG> - scroll a <STRONG>curses</STRONG> window
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>scroll(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>scrl(int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>wscrl(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
The <STRONG>scroll</STRONG> routine scrolls the window up one line. This
involves 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 <EM>n</EM>, the <STRONG>scrl</STRONG> and <STRONG>wscrl</STRONG> routines scroll the
window up <EM>n</EM> lines (line <EM>i</EM>+<EM>n</EM> becomes <EM>i</EM>); otherwise scroll
the window down <EM>n</EM> lines. This involves moving the lines
in the window character image structure. The current cur-
sor position is not changed.
For these functions to work, scrolling must be enabled via
<STRONG>scrollok</STRONG>.
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<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
These routines return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure, and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 only
specifies "an integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon success-
ful 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 <STRONG>scrollok</STRONG>.
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<H2>NOTES</H2><PRE>
Note that <STRONG>scrl</STRONG> and <STRONG>scroll</STRONG> may be macros.
The SVr4 documentation says that the optimization of phys-
ically scrolling immediately if the scroll region is the
entire screen "is" performed, not "may be" performed.
This implementation deliberately does not guarantee that
this will occur, to leave open the possibility of smarter
optimization of multiple scroll actions on the next up-
date.
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 im-
plementation it is.
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<H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these func-
tions.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_outopts.3x.html">curs_outopts(3x)</A></STRONG>
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_scroll.3x.html">curs_scroll(3x)</A></STRONG>
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