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44 .Nd curses terminal update routines
52 .Fn wrefresh "WINDOW *win"
54 .Fn wnoutrefresh "WINDOW *win"
58 .Fn leaveok "WINDOW *win" "boolf flag"
60 .Fn flushok "WINDOW *win" "boolf flag"
62 These functions update the terminal with the contents of
64 or of the specified window(s).
68 function causes curses to propagate changes made to
70 to the terminal display.
71 Any changes made to subwindows of
77 function is the same as the
79 function, excepting that changes are propagated to the terminal from the
85 function performs the internal processing required by curses to determine
86 what changes need to be made to synchronise the internal screen buffer
87 and the terminal but does not modify the terminal display.
91 function updates the terminal display to match the internal curses
92 representation of the display.
98 functions can be used together to speed up terminal redraws by
99 deferring the actual terminal updates until after a batch of updates
100 to multiple windows has been done.
104 function is equivalent to
105 .Fn wnoutrefresh stdscr
111 function determines whether refresh operations may leave the screen cursor
112 in an arbitrary position on the screen.
117 ensures that the screen cursor is positioned at the current cursor
118 position after a refresh operation has taken place.
122 function is used to determine whether or not the screen's output file
123 descriptor will be flushed on refresh.
128 will cause the output to be flushed.
130 Functions returning pointers will return
132 if an error is detected.
133 The functions that return an int will return one of the following
136 .Bl -tag -width ERR -compact
138 The function completed successfully.
140 An error occurred in the function.
149 on a new, unchanged window has no effect.
153 Curses library complies with the X/Open Curses specification, part of the
154 Single Unix Specification.
156 The Curses package appeared in