curs_printw(3X)curs_printw(3X)NAME
printw, wprintw, mvprintw, mvwprintw, vwprintw, vw_printw - print for‐
matted output in curses windows
SYNOPSIS
#include <curses.h>
int printw(char *fmt [, arg] ...);
int wprintw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt [, arg] ...);
int mvprintw(int y, int x, char *fmt [, arg] ...);
int mvwprintw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x,
char *fmt [, arg] ...);
#include <varargs.h>
int vwprintw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, varglist);
int vw_printw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, varglist);
DESCRIPTION
The printw, wprintw, mvprintw and mvwprintw routines are analogous to
printf [see printf(3S)]. In effect, the string that would be output by
printf is output instead as though waddstr were used on the given win‐
dow.
The vwprintw routine is analogous to vprintf [see printf(3S)] and per‐
forms a wprintw using a variable argument list. The third argument is
a va_list, a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in <varargs.h>.
RETURN VALUE
Routines that return an integer return ERR upon failure and OK (SVr4
only specifies "an integer value other than ERR") upon successful com‐
pletion.
PORTABILITY
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions. The func‐
tion vwprintw is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be replaced by a
function vw_printw using the <stdarg.h> interface.
SEE ALSOcurses(3X), printf(3S), vprintf(3S)curs_printw(3X)
